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How to Feed Your Voracious Appetite for All the Things While Making Time for Balance and Rest
When you are so intense, complex, exuberant, and curious, learning your next instrument or your next language or examining your latest discovery, how do you assess your level of capacity, interests, and enthusiams so you know when you’ve moved out of pure passion into overdrive, over commitment, or overwhelm? How do you know when you…
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Gifted In Serbia
“I can hear and feel with such an intensity. I can understand what people are feeling just by their look or presence. I can very often predict what they are going to say. Bad styling and bad architecture are literally killing me. I am looking for details in stuff that are meaningless for others. I…
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The Loneliness Of Not Being Seen In All Of Your Multitudes
There is a deep satisfaction in being understood. Being truly seen. Receiving an authentic response from someone who has heard, grasped, and appreciated your particular, unique voice. Your multidimensional, nuanced, unusual thinking, feeling, and knowing. It can bring me to tears when I experience being met in this way. Surely, we all need this. But…
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Just Because You Can Do The Task Better, Does Not Mean You Have To Do The Task — And Other Important Reminders For Your Gifted Soul
Just because you can do the task faster, better, and more completely, does not mean you have to agree to do that task. Just because you were told you must live up to your great potential, does not mean you have to be the best whatever who ever lived, win all the awards before you…
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A Gifted Multipotentialite in Germany
” At 19, I was so, so utterly lost. I had no idea what to study in college, who to be, what to do. Everyone else felt like by choosing a major, their life was taking shape and finally starting for real. I felt like by choosing, I had to accomplish the impossible.” Luisa is…
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Resources for Inspiration, Information, and Introspection for Your Curious, Compassionate, and Overwhelmed Mind and Heart
“…i suspect the future will be shaped by all that we are feeling in the present. i believe that asking each other for help is self-love, and answering honestly is self-love, and giving what we can is community love. and love is what will reshape the pattern of humanity. even through the tears, i know…
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If You Were Gifted, Wouldn’t You Be An Arrogant Know-It-All With Two PHDs in Astrophysics?
Maybe. Maybe not. Click here to watch me pontificating (briefly) on the subject. In case you do not want to watch me pontificate and you would rather read a more detailed version of my pontification, here ya go: I have met a whole lot of gifted folks in my somewhat quirkified life. I realize this…
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Fear Of Failure, Fear Of Success, Passion For Excellence — The Complexity Of Perfectionism
Before we get into it, I have to share this moment of insight. Have you struggled with what to say when people ask you, what do you do for a living? Or they want to know, how are you? Or they ask you for your favorite book or your favorite color or your favorite documentary…
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Being Interested In, Oh, Everything — The Gifted Multipotentialite Booknerd
My friend, Jade, came to my home to spend the weekend. It is an annual event. As part of the visit, she asked to return to my town’s fabulous used bookstore. Being an extremely rainforest-minded human, she was happily in her element. I could have left her there for hours, days maybe. When I saw…