Paula Prober's Blog, page 5
December 2, 2024
The Responsibility and Anxiety You Feel When You’re Told You Are Gifted
When I tell you that you are gifted, is that good news or bad news? Both? I understand. There are many reasons for this. Here are a few: First of all, you may not even believe me. You may think you are “normal.” You may imagine that everyone thinks and feels as deeply as you […]
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November 26, 2024
A Rainforest Mind’s Holiday Season Highlights and Lowlights
You are about to read a rainforest mind’s holiday highlights from the past eight years, more or less. I’m not sure what happened to 2018 and 2019, though. Those years appear to be missing. Perhaps I was ignoring the holidays then. If you are not wanting to ignore the holidays or if you are being […]
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November 18, 2024
What To Do When Life Becomes Disturbing and Uncertain and Your C-PTSD Symptoms Resurface
Recent events in N. America and our world are likely to be very disturbing for many of you. Even if you don’t suffer from complex post-traumatic stress disorder (C-PTSD), these times can be scary. And yet, life today is likely to be particularly upsetting if you experienced trauma in your family of origin. On the […]
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November 11, 2024
I Didn’t Want My Friends to Feel Inadequate So I Hid My Love of Math and Science
“…I was a high achieving gifted kid and successful in high school. I got lots of awards that I didn’t feel I deserved. I wanted to spend my first year in college as an unassuming freshman, just going through the system and being normal. I’ve ended up right back in the thick of it though, […]
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November 4, 2024
Do Not Underestimate Your Capacity to Create a Better World–Now is Your Time
I wonder if you have felt overwhelmed lately. I know I have. Or frustrated with humanity. Me, too. I wonder if you have had moments of despair and loneliness. Yup. Maybe many moments of gasping and gagging at the generally appalling, confounding behavior of human beings. Uh huh. Well, my darlings, I understand. It would […]
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October 28, 2024
Are You Still Gifted if You Have to Struggle to Learn or Achieve Some of the Time?
Yes! You are still gifted even if you are not brilliant at everything at all times in every situation! When you are gifted, learning many things comes easily. It is part of what makes you gifted. Were you reading at age four even though no one taught you to read? Did school assignments not require […]
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October 21, 2024
Some of My Best Friends are Books (and Journals)
When I feel lonely, I buy books. When I feel sad, I buy books. When I feel curious, I buy books. When I feel grateful, I buy books. When I feel anxious, I buy books. When I feel joyful, I buy books. When I feel frustrated, I buy books. When I feel despair, I buy […]
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October 9, 2024
Do All Intellectually Gifted Folks Have Rainforest Minds?
The short answer? No. Not everyone who is advanced intellectually has the traits of the rainforest-minded. But everyone with a rainforest mind is intellectually gifted! Let me explain. You may know people who are clearly gifted in certain intellectual ways. Maybe they have PhDs in astrophysics. They might be able to quote long passages from […]
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October 4, 2024
When You Feel Overwhelmed, Powerless, or Frightened for the Future, and You Have a Rainforest Mind, What Can You Do?
You might be feeling overwhelmed, powerless, and even frightened as you pay attention to the news, particularly around politics in N. America, trauma around the world, and about the growing impact of the climate crisis. Because you have a rainforest mind, you may be particularly aware of injustice. You may feel pressure to find answers […]
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September 27, 2024
Trevor Noah on the Importance of Friends
A Conversation Between Trevor Noah and Simon Sinek and More I wonder if we all prioritized friendships how life would be different. For us. For our world. Being a single, childfree, catlady (without the cat), friends are particularly important to me. But I wonder if friendships might actually be a basic necessity for everyone. Kind […]
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