You’re intense, complex, and driven because you’re gifted

Excerpt from The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius, by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen.

To feel like an outsider, to constantly pressure yourself to hold back your gifts in order to fit in or avoid disapproval, to erroneously believe that you are overly sensitive, compulsively perfectionistic, and blindly driven, to live without knowing the basic truths about the core of your being – too often this is the life of Everyday Geniuses who have been kept in the dark about who they are and misinformed about their differences.

No one ever took them aside and exlained: “Of course you’re different. You’re intense, complex, and driven because you’re gifted.”

No one told them they cannot escape the fact that they will always be quantitatively, qualitatively, and motivationally different from most other people. Nor do they know that these very same things that are the basis of criticism are fundamental building blocks of excellence and Advanced Development.

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