Thank you for this helpful information about giftedness. I have my own definition of giftedness : The definition of Giftedness: the possession of special potential in a subject that has no scientific pillars.

This is the best information I’ve ever heard for understanding my life and experiences.

Linda Silverman. You are awesome!

Would love to learn how gifted (not 2E) adults can still make friends as grownups. Giftedness can be very isolating, and socialising can be a real challenge as an adult. For example, where to meet and hangout informally. This is a massive blindspot culturally. Many wrongly assume bright people already have friends or can find them easily. In actual fact, it's terrifically difficult to connect outside of work as an adult. Thanks again. Enjoyed your presentation.

12:42 exceptional abstract reasoning ability 17:07 relentlessly creative mind 17:42 high standards for self 19:20 (characteristics)

Excellent video. I think the number one reason I do not easily accept my giftedness because I think everyone else experiences and thinks and feels like me. I cannot understand that others do NOT experience like I do. I assume others inner world is similar to mine. Even if outwardly it seems they’re not experiencing life like me, I think well privately they surely must be experiencing life as I do, they’re just hiding it.

Linda Silverman , You know myself more than anyone in the universe. I cryed so many times hearing your lecture. Very deep feelings on me when you explain myself in such precise , accurate and Also positive Way.. thank you só much . Truly you are a wonderfull person

25:52 age 82 32:30 own your giftedness 35:46 if 98% find you odd, seek the company of those who love you as you are 41:00 what's your passion and excites you? 48:02 gifted giver 48:54 does this person feed me or drain me? 52:00 let it be known that you have needs

Beautiful!! Today I needed your message. Thank you Linda!!

Windmills are surprisingly elusive.

Might I suggest that each of those energies needs to be expended. When a child is wiggly, everyone says, "They need to get outside and exercise." Let me suggest that when a child is making up wild stories, they may need to expend creative energies. Etc.

While I am just reaching my peak, at 68 I am thrilled to listen to your lectures and understand why my life has been spent outside the realm of the people I know. Thank you for your work and lectures as they have helped me understand who and why I have been the many "I"s it took to form the Mii I have become and love after decades of self destruction. While I may not fit in with the world, I also have no desire to do so except to offer what I have found through my creations, Tiny Texas Houses was one of the businesses, like Salvage, Texas, quantum chapters written into a Quantum Story that will be the entangling path for others to learn and understand how to communicate this spirit in body to the world, as well as use the powers wii have to alter the future and form the millennium of Peace and Prosperity that Wii came to create. Can Wii create that World Union of Beings that can communicate cosmic wide, be integrated at last into the bigger cosmic society. Most do not believe this is coming, but I do. Thanks again. This must be understood for mankind to make the next step. Kudos to your works.

If I can meet my expectations then I will have done something great for I rarely achieve what I want, but aiming high lets me out perform anyone I know. It is the belief that I can do what others do not dare try that allows me to excel. It is our belief system, or ability to give all wii have to make what wii want to manifest happen. Focus, willingness to sacrifice all else to succeed... but that means the ability to detach from people. Reasoning is a key to this, but so it the ability to focus, to maintain that focus, and to act. Acting is the key to proving the tools can produce results, Having the tools but not the ambition or desire to be successful is nothing, but the desire to do... to act upon that abstract visualization ability is to change reality, to alter the future by our acts. Seeing what is possible, that abstract reasoning ability is a key, I agree. Overcoming the fear of failure and realizing that failure is a process that takes us to success is a huge aspect of continued growth in our giftedness... unhampered by the people around them, potential can grow with time.

56:46 perfectionism is a desire for excellence 58:17 prioritize. Dont be a perfectionist at everything

Giftedness come from being stupid. An open mind to question.

I agree with the foolishness inherent in the term “overachiever.” The word implies that there is a level of achievement beyond which an individual should not go - a ridiculous thought.

I didn't associate abstract thinking with giftedness. What other traits is abstract reasoning ability related to aside from giftedness? In my mid-twenties I was given an IQ test, but never told the results. I was given this test in med school because I was failing the first important class. All of the students who were struggling were given this test as well, and many were sent for ADHD testing and put on medication. All I was told was that I had good abstract reasoning skills, I'm bright, and I should have no problems with doing well in medical school - I wasn't tested for ADHD. I still struggled in medical school and recognized my issues early on and sought help. I told my advisor it was like a brick was blocking my brain....no matter how much I studied I couldn't absorb the information. I studied and did everything possible to succeed. The neuroscientist who tested my IQ told me they couldn't figure out what was "wrong". I was sent to a psychiatrist, who put me on different SSRIs over the course of a year. Starting in high school I had panic attacks during exams/class and they got worse as I was older since they were never treated. That's what the psychiatrist focused on. My performance was horrible on exams in medical school, and most of my life (starting in middle school) I felt like I was dumber than other students. I withdrew from med school and that event squashed my self-esteem even more. There was a gifted and talented program I was in during elementary school - but only one year and it was at the recommendation of my 4th grade teacher....I think because I put in more effort. I felt like a fraud in the gifted and talented program and thought I was just there not because I was actually smart, but because I worked harder. I often hear about gifted people not having to study when they were younger, but that wasn't me.

@legalfictionnaturalfact3969

9 ай бұрын

Can relate to a lot of this. You know what I think the brick in the brain thing is? I tend to think the astute mind understands that classroom learning is Obsolete and that most of what you are taught, at least philosophically, in professional schools and alike.. is nonsense. It kills the natural learn drive. We're really supposed to learn by following our noses topic by topic through what we want to know about. Not by jumping through an endless set of Hoops someone else set up for us. Also, they will tell you you cannot be a physician without their Rockefeller medical schools. But that's a lie. :-)

@legalfictionnaturalfact3969

3 ай бұрын

Currently, med school is for people of mediocre intellect and a supreme ability to bend over for their masters. Consider your choice to leave a good one.

As a Vulcan would say, don't use logic on me that is my job.

@ersatzkafka

11 ай бұрын

Hahaha

that's nice. I got a question. When someone gives up on his/her gifts for years and then relized he/she was wrong, what should be the first step to work it out??

@melanieforrester7689

11 ай бұрын

Resume. Grow from where you are. Research your current options.

In what precisely does giftedness consist if this special quality does not feel like anything?

Dear Linda You created ISAD 1979, TESTED 6500 CHILDREN, PUBLISHED JOURNEL ON ADULT GIFTNESS, ORGANIZED SYMPOSIUM ON GIFTNESS IN ADULTS, INTERNATONAL CONGRESS IN 2012, SYMPOSIUM ON GIFTED WOMEN IN 2018 SALON SERIES ON GIFTED ADULT 2011 and you speak at these events with a vocabulary and insight that equals Shakespeare, which brings me to ask when are you going to label yourself creative? With great affection Nora

Too honest for other people. 😑

What a great message. Thank you!