Complexe ou Laminaire ?
Mmouais… Cela fait quelques temps que je vois passer ce mot dans le petit monde des surdoués et chaque fois je trouve bien confus ce que je lis autour de tout ça… sans pour autant prendre le temps de m’y […]
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Giftedness daily (8) – Successful and suicidal
I want to report the release of Ian Thorpe’s autobiography (“This is me, Ian Thorpe“), the “australian torpedo”, swimmer of legend who hast just turned 30. This guy has everything one can ask for : tall, goodlooking, strong, clearly clever, […]
Stop trying to raise your own self-esteem !
Rather try to raise your self control ! This is the main conclusion of psychologist Roy Baumeister in an article called “Rethinking Self-Esteem” and published in the « Stanford Social Innovation Review » – Winter 2005. Since hypersensitivity and impulsiveness are two […]
(Français) Mieux vivre et gérer son hypersensibilité et ses émotions
L’hypersensibilité, vaste sujet : tout devient facilement “trop”, surtout quand on est pris dans un engrenage d’activités et de contraintes sociales. Cet état est une partie intégrante de la personnalité des surdoués, c’est une réalité neurophysiologique. Ca part de loin, […]
Giftedness and addiction – a new study
The Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health reports the results of a study : children with a high IQ are more at risk to become drug addicts adults.Women are even more concerned than men. Access to the abstract of the […]
!–:en–>Coping through awareness – Andrew Mahoney (1/2)
The following text, written by Andrew Mahoney, was one of the important ones for my work : “Copying Through Awareness” highlights how important it is to become really aware of one’s giftedness. Andrew Mahoney explains that denying is of no […]
Discovering the Gifted Ex-Child by Stephanie Tolan
Hereafter is another text which was key for my research. The way Stephanie Tolan writes is so limpid and so simple.. To my eyes, this is a major asset for easing self acceptation of being gifted, and for encouraging to […]
Gifted and Addicted
It is easy to laugh at or condemn an addiction, depending on how serious it is. Not so easy to make it vanish. Since those who suffer from an addiction would certainly the very first to be happy if they […]