Living With Intensity: Understanding the Sensitivity, Excitability, and the Emotional Development of Gifted Children, Adolescents, and Adults
Gifted children and adults are often misunderstood. Their excitement is viewed as excessive, their high energy as hyperactivity, their persistence as nagging, their imagination as not paying attention, their passion as being disruptive, their strong emotions and sensitivity as immaturity, their creativity and self-directedness as oppositional. This resource describes these overexcitabilities and strategies for dealing
Gifted children and adults are often misunderstood. Their excitement is viewed as excessive, their high energy as hyperactivity, their persistence as nagging, their imagination as not paying attention, their passion as being disruptive, their strong emotions and sensitivity as immaturity, their creativity and self-directedness as oppositional.
This resource describes these overexcitabilities and strategies for dealing with children and adults who are experiencing them, and provides essential information about Dabrowski s Theory of Positive Disintegration. Learn practical methods for nurturing sensitivity, intensity, perfectionism, and much more.
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- Living with Intensity Understanding the Sensitivity Excitability and the Emotional Development of Gifted Children Adolescents and Adults
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MUST READ for Gifted Adults As a child, I was tested as having an IQ in the profoundly gifted range. I have never felt particularly smart, though – and at some level, I was convinced that my parents just didn’t understand the test results. From my perspective, I don’t feel that I learn and understand more easily than others. I have always felt like I was just more motivated than other people… I work harder and I care more about the things I do. As a result, I have accomplished a lot of things in my life and have…
Wait. How did stories about me get in this book? You might purchase this book, as I did, in an attempt to both better parent your intense, gifted child and to help provide him a framework to understand himself. Don’t be surprised, however, if you come away after reading it with an entirely new lens for understanding your own childhood experiences. In my case, it turns out, the intense little apple does not fall far from the intense little tree and this book changed my whole way of looking at my past, present, and future self.
This book is pretty cool if you and/or loved ones This book is pretty cool if you and/or loved ones, family and friends are very bright and/or creative but at some point someone felt that someone was being very emotional – whether just having a surprisingly strong emotional reaction to something or seeming like an intense and sensitive person. I had no idea that this quality is normal in people who are exceptionally bright and creative and is not “just crazy women”. It can provide some insight and context to those who didn’t know.