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The Pros and Cons of a Gifted Life

Many folks think the gifted life is full of award-winning achievements, astonishing accomplishments, and arrogant confidence. They think of the person on the show Jeopardy who retains vast amounts of information stored in the overflowing file cabinets of their big brains. They think of the musical prodigy who is composing symphonies and performing at age […]

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The “Utterly Alchemizing” Benefits Of Journal Writing

“The journal is where we seek out and find our highest, most liberated, most creative self.” Suleika Jaouad If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you know I’m an avid journal writer. I have small stacks of journals scattered around my humble home. Because I live alone, I’m not concerned that an unaccompanied […]

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A Gifted “Ultra Extrovert” in Finland

Heikki, age 49, has quite a combination of traits. He describes himself as an “ultra-extrovert” who is high sensation seeking (HSS) with multipotentiality and a rainforest mind. In the Dabrowski model, he has all five overexcitabilities (OEs). He lives in Finland. I don’t write much or have lots of experience with extroversion or HSS individuals […]

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Take This Unconventional Test To Determine If You Might Be Gifted

How many of the following gifted traits & behaviors apply to you? ~ You wonder what it might be like to feel “normal,” although you are starting to realize “normal” is not necessarily something to strive for. ~ Your teachers, friends, family, and neighbors repeat themselves and over-explain and don’t realize you are daydreaming because […]

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Can You Be Gifted If You Are Not Good At Math? Why Does It Matter?

I have been asked this question many times: How can I be gifted? I’m terrible at math. I love reading but I don’t remember what I read. My SAT scores were average. I didn’t go to college and barely made it through high school. I always forget where I put my keys. Life is overwhelming. […]

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Does Psychotherapy Matter When The Sky Is Falling?

If you are a client in psychotherapy or in some other form of self-healing-growth-expansion, you might be concerned that you are not doing enough to impact the larger world beyond your own psyche. You may worry you are too self-focused or too introspective because life all around you is in turmoil, upheaval, and breakdown. You […]

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Are You a Know-It-All or Are You a Want-To-Know-It-All?

If you are highly curious, deep thinking, creative, and super smart, at some time in your life, you may have been accused of being a know-it-all. You may have been called arrogant or conceited. You may have been admonished with any of the following: Who do you think you are? You are too smart for […]

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Gifted Kids in School. Gifted Adults at Work. What Are the Similarities?

When you were a child in school, did you ever have to hide your high grades from the other kids because they would either bully you or because you would feel bad for the children who were not successful? Did you have to wait for the other children to finish an assignment that you completed […]

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When You Think You Are Too Sensitive, Too Curious, And Too Weird, Check To See If You Have A Rainforest Mind

I used to think I was too serious, too emotional, too intense, too deep, too sensitive, too curious, and too weird. Now, I know these traits are my strengths because they are the basic building blocks of my powerful, creative rainforest mind. (RFM) You may have been told to stop being so serious. Or to […]

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Let’s All Defy Gravity* Now, Shall We?

I was a theatre geek in high school. I auditioned for all the plays and when I didn’t get cast, I worked behind the scenes painting sets, gathering props, and secretly swooning over the popular boys. But I started getting cast in more roles once I was in college and worked with a speech and […]

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