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Your Rainforest Mind — The Book — Released!!
My book, Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults and Youth, is available NOW! (June 20, 2016) Here are some highlights: A few questions from the highly unscientific quiz determining if you, in fact, have a rainforest mind: From the introduction: In the following pages, you will meet excessively curious, idealistic,…
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Are You Too Smart To Fail?
You don’t like to fail. In fact, you may be terrified of failure. And you have trouble not seeing any minor mistake as a monumental failure. Right? Am I in your head? Yeah? It’s pretty wild in here. So many monkeys. But what is failure? What are the advantages of failure? Why do I think you…
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If You Haven’t Achieved Greatness, Can You Be Gifted?
Here it is. That pesky old question. You’ve heard it. You grapple with it. If you aren’t a high achiever, can you be gifted? If your achievements aren’t “great,” can you be gifted? If your work isn’t “insanely great,” might you not be gifted but just insane? (You may not have heard of that last question.…
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You’re Not Crazy. You’re Gifted.
You obsess over commas. You freak out at the mall. You rage at the sound of a leaf blower. It’s been four years and you still haven’t found the right color for your bedroom walls. You remember violent movie images for weeks. You know what emotions strangers are feeling. You have a gazillion ideas in your…
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Your Kids Are Gifted. Should You Tell Them?
What do you do when your little darlings think fast, feel deeply, and ask questions you can’t answer. What do you do when they correct your mistakes, ruminate about the meaning of infinity, and prefer Beethoven to baseball? Do you tell them that they’re gifted? Do they need to know why the other four year olds ignore their lectures on the life cycle of the…
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Most Popular Posts of 2015
Here are the top six posts of 2015. Thank you so much for reading, commenting, sharing and living your sensitive, intelligent, emotional, curious, compassionate rainforest-y life! Join me, dear bloggEEs, for more treks into the depths in 2016. Let us know, in the comments, how you’re doing and what you’d like to see next year. Imagine…
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It’s Complicated: Your Rainforest (Gifted) Mind
The rainforest mind runs wide and deep. Think of the Amazon. The astonishing number of different species and the variety among each species. The lush, fertile, saturated richness decomposing and transforming. Maybe millions of plants, insects and micro-organisms still undiscovered. Just like you: Astonishing amount of thinking, ideas, emotions, sensations, perceptions. Depth, sensitivity, creativity, disintegrating and…
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If I’m So Smart, Why Am I So Dumb? Part Two
The following are my top ten reasons why you may feel “dumb,” not so smart and certainly not gifted : #10. You’re highly sensitive, emotional, idealistic and lonely. Gifted people are cynical, logical and objective and prefer being alone to think. #9. You have multiple interests and can’t decide on one career path. Gifted people pick one thing,…
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When You Want to Send the Gift(edness) Back
I’m not complaining. You. A super-smart person. Have a lot going for you. A lot. You were born with a brain that is wired for extra-intelligence. It was a gift. You didn’t earn it. But there it is. I’m grateful. You’re grateful. And you’re not complaining when you explain that there are times when you…
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