Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: first, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change -- to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change: doing something. Leo Buscaglia
After working with gifted and multi-talented people for more than ten years, I know that to create a meaningful and successful life gifted adults must do three things:
- first understand themselves, their special abilities and unique needs;
- second, learn how to meet their needs and manage their relationships;
- third, learn to use themselves and their talents for their own advantage.
When gifted adults have not mastered those three things, their life is exceedingly stressful.
Encouraging, supporting and guiding gifted, talented and creative adults to achieve their goals and realize their dreams by identifying and working through blocks and conflicts and developing skills for dealing with and solving their problems and challenges is what gifted adults need to thrive and develop their potential.
While peers, teachers, mentors, and significant others may admire the many contributions gifted people make, they may also have inappropriate and overly inflated expectations for gifted adults and can fail to provide key instruction, support, and encouragement. This is exceedingly stressful for gifted adults who may expect themselves to live up to these standards and believe that they are failures or not gifted if they do not. Coaching and psychotherapy with an informed gifted adult therapist can help gifted adults break free from this extreme pressure and pattern of inappropriate expectations and standards.
Lynne Azpeitia, M.A., Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist
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Existential Depression in Gifted Individuals
James T. Webb, Ph.D.
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Helping Gifted Students with Stress Management
Leslie S. Kaplan
Many gifted youngsters have a heightened sensitivity to their surroundings, to events, to ideas, and to expectations. Some experience their own high expectations for achievement as a relentless pressure to excel. Constant striving to live up to self-expectations--or those of others-- to be first, best, or both can be very stressful … More
Steve Jobs I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.
The first story is about connecting the dots. I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?
It started before I was born.....
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