By Cathy Goodwin. Gifted adults often face unique career challenges. Job environments rarely reward creativity, a hallmark of the gifted, and frequently punish anyone who threatens to color outside the lines. Corporations often resemble football games, where players are rewarded for being in position to receive the ball - everyone wins by executing the coach’s play. Gifted people function better when their game resembles playground basketball, where you can scramble and make plays as you go.

By Errol Michael Henry. Having personal goals is a prerequisite of a success–filled life, but setting targets will not by itself facilitate fulfillment of your potential... Massive deposits of natural talent cannot safeguard against the possibility of unfulfilled potential — as a matter of fact, hugely gifted people are more likely to leave this earth with unused potential than those who possessed little.

A critic once described the mind of Jonathan Miller as “a turmoil of sizzling wires, connecting drama with anthropology, literature with quantum physics, linguistics with genetic theory.” What caught my attention to write this post was the discord Dr. Miller has expressed about his choosing various career paths in the arts and entertainment, instead of medicine.

In this article we present the story of a young university-educated woman who struggles with making choices in her career and in her life. In this case report we provide background information on gifted people at work and how psychological processes like irrational thoughts, the process of making choices and dealing with emotions work out in the highly gifted.

With their creative talents, gifted individuals can make a useful contribution to innovations within organisations. They possess many more creative possibilities than the average person. To make use of their innovative ideas and to implement them, however, an effective interaction between gifted individuals and their work environment is essential.

By Willem Kuipers. (Published in Volume 11, 2007 of 'Advanced Development, a Journal on Adult Giftedness.') ABSTRACT - Many gifted adults are not aware of their giftedness or deny it for lack of adequate knowledge about the subject. They often carry the load of being different all alone and unaware of the true reasons for those differences.

By Marie-Josée Salvas. Martha loves to cook and does it beautifully. She is equally talented at home design. Having studied fashion, she can also help just about any lady plan a make-over, including hair, make-up or clothing style. But it’s a real shame to see her go to the same federal office day after day so she can send emails, make photocopies, stamp paperwork, and align numbers in the right columns.

By David Brooks, Op-Ed Columnist, The New York Times - Some people live in romantic ages. They tend to believe that genius is the product of a divine spark. They believe that there have been, throughout the ages, certain paragons of greatness — Dante, Mozart, Einstein — whose talents far exceeded normal comprehension, who had an other-worldly access to transcendent truth, and who are best approached with reverential awe. We, of course, live in a scientific age...

Are people fascinated by so much in the world because of their intellectual development, or does consciously feeding our mind stimulate high level thought and creative ability? Steve Pavlina, for example, writes, "Leonardo da Vinci, considered a genius by any reasonable standard, achieved competence across a diverse set of fields, including art, music, science, anatomy, engineering, architecture, and many others. While some would argue that such wide-ranging interests were a result of his intelligence, I think it is more likely that they were the cause of it - or at least a major contributing factor."

By Steven Pinker - People have long wondered about the source of genius. Neuroscientists examining the brain of Albert Einstein said it had large and unusually shaped inferior parietal lobules, a seat of mathematical and spatial reasoning... Every aspect of thought and emotion is rooted in brain structure and function, including many psychological disorders and, presumably, genius.