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Instead, she was what chemist and novelist Carl Djerassi might call an “intellectual polygamist.”
57 She was married to music, philosophy, law, business, environmental policy, and engineering. And she would likely have even more spouses in the future.
Belonging Here: A Guide to the Spiritually Sensitive Person. Blackstone studied Buddhism and Eastern philosophy and, as a psychotherapist, created a process that included body awareness and psychology that would lead to what she called “fundamental consciousness.”
Spend time at puttylike.com. Join the community of multipotentialites.
Read The Renaissance Soul, by Margaret Lobenstine. There are many excellent concrete exercises in the book that can help you figure out how to manage and manifest your careers.
Be a Free Range Human, by Marianne Cantwell, is an excellent guide to creating career paths.
If you love research, writing, and speaking about science topics, check out the writer Mary Roach’s books and consider a similar career path.
Understand that your divergent thinking, your openness to new ideas and your love of research may contribute to this “problem.” Explain it to the important people in your life so that they have more patience with you.
Asynchrony, then, is another phenomenon that sets you apart and alone. Most children do not have such glaring differences in their developmental levels. They are clearer about where they fit. You are lonely because you do not fit in any one place.
experience is both tiring and frustrating. Particularly if she does not understand or accept her giftedness, she (and others) may interpret her difficulty as social ineptitude.64
As Mary-Elaine Jacobsen puts it, you may “love to play with speech patterns, twists of a phrase, and hidden meanings, or simply enjoy the sound of certain words as they roll off the tongue.”65
I get hungry for people who are socially competent and intellectual and curious about literally everything and creative and broad-minded and motivated by justice . . . People who care and feel deeply but also think in complex wide-ranging ways.
I get frustrated when I have to stop and explain things to people that seem very obvious to me. Being able to think at my own pace is such a relief. Finding someone who enjoys exploring a topic at that pace is exhilarating.
If you’re an introvert, join Susan Cain’s community at quietrev.com. Susan Cain is the author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World that Can’t Stop Talking.
Remember that what is obvious to you may not be so to others.
Chief Curiosity Correspondent.
Let curiosity be your extreme sport.
Bright Not Broken, or additudemag.com
Get out of the box, let go of normal, and stop trying to climb into the box.
With their verbal facility, capacity for abstract thinking, and ability to understand complexity, gifted and talented adults often find traditional religion wanting, especially religion of the fundamentalist sort.
He studied adults who reported spiritual experiences as children and found that certain categories were repeated: “unity, oneness [with nature], timelessness, or the interconnection of everything.”
[P]rofound sensitivity and compassion, depth of empathy, integrity, honesty, intuitive inner guidance, living in accordance with equality and justice, and an ability to move beyond everyday reality into oneness with God, nature, the universe, or “All That Is.”95
I recently discovered a book titled Belonging Here: A Guide for the Spiritually Sensitive Person, by Judith Blackstone.
academically.
Keep searching for yourself. Do as much therapy, reading, writing, obsessing, questioning, crying, analyzing, creating, dancing, exercising, building, snowboarding, and rebelling as you need to do to get to what feels like your soul’s song. Then sing it. No matter what anyone tells you, sing out. The Universe will thank you.
Belonging Here, Judith Blackstone
The Gifted Adult, Mary-Elaine Jacobsen
The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine Aron
quietrev.com: Susan Cain’s website on introversion
rainforestmind.wordpress.com/2014/09/07/empathy-gifted-adults/
rainforestmind.wordpress.com/2014/06/21/still-sleepless-cranky-and-annoying-after-all-these-years/
Mindset, Carol Dweck
The War of Art, Steven Pressfield
rainforestmind.wordpress.com/2014/04/23/perfectionism-procrastination-and-perspicacity/ rainforestmind.wordpress.com/2014/05/06/perfectionisms-twin-sister/ ted.com/talks/amy_cuddy_your_body_language_shapes_who_you_are:
Free Range Humans, Marianne Cantwell
The Renaissance Soul, Margaret Lobenstein
puttylike.com: Emilie Wapnick on multipotentiality
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, Susan Cain
The Artist’s Way, Julia Cameron
The War of Art, Steven Pressfield
