One of the myths of highly talented people is they can almost magically choose whatever personal and career path they want, and realize their gifts without hindrance. It doesn’t exactly work out that way.
Author and educator Stephanie S. Tolan notes in her article Discovering the Gifted Ex-Child that “Even when the individual is able to [...]

Catherine Keener [left, photo from her new film "Friends With Money"], in an article about “Capote,” said she “understands how a perfectly nice person with a talent for acting, or directing, or music making builds a big career and in doing so loses much of who they were to begin with,” as writer Mary McNamara [...]