April 12, 2023

The Swan of Everyday Genius

Who are the Everyday Geniuses, the multitude of swans domesticated for a duck’s life? They wear no ID tags, so we can’t spot them by appearance or by even asking. Few of them know the markers of their core identity. Even so, they are all around us. As Mary-Elaine Jacobsen writes in […]
May 1, 2022

Discovering These Untold Truths Are More Valuable Than 100 Self-Help Courses

Here’s how professional writers go faster, deeper, and rethink everything.  Where do the best writers go to learn from each other and discover truths and techniques which keep dialing up their writing productivity, quality, and reputation?  That’s where I want to go and immerse in more productive, more prolific writing.  Before there was the […]
April 30, 2022

Superpowers of Gifted Professionals Are Hidden in Plain Sight

What seems clear and obvious to Jerry Allan might seem to others complex, multidimensional, and surreal, like stepping into a video game.  This could be a huge problem in connecting and understanding others, leading to a life of isolation and overcompensating to fit in, if not for the superpower of design thinking. […]
April 4, 2022

Did You Notice? There’s An Everyday Genius Among Us.

Some gifted professionals have highly specialized talents. Others, possess broad-ranging potentialities, drawing from a pool of abilities to excel in all sorts of things. As Mary-Elaine Jacobsen writes in her book, The Gifted Adult, “A handful become millionaire entertainers, eminent physicians, Pulitzer and Nobel prize winners. Many more are firefighters, librarians, kindergarten […]