July 18, 2024
July 18, 2024
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If You’re Gifted and You Know It, Clap Your Hands

What Happens When You Grow Up? Does your childhood memory include learning this song in school or singing along with Big Bird or Elmo? If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. If you’re happy and you know it, clap your hands. If you’re happy and you know it, then […]
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May 13, 2024
May 13, 2024
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Ah Ha! Here’s Why Your Life Is Not Going As Planned

Why doesn’t high intelligence make anything work? We’re all smart here. We’re not stupid. One of the biggest hurdles for gifted people is realizing they can’t do everything. They can’t know everything. Many of us take on thinking we can make anything work! If only others would cooperate! Sound familiar? That comes […]
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February 22, 2024
February 22, 2024
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It Started With Wolves

Curiosity, exploration, and relentless pursuit of excellence In the bustling world of communication, where noise often reigns supreme, there exists a quiet force, a subtle gifted professional and communicator who weaves intricate webs of understanding amid the chaos. Meet Terri Ellman, whose journey through the realms of curiosity, exploration, and relentless pursuit […]
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January 16, 2024
January 16, 2024
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When You Feel Doubt Deeply, Do You Stop or See The Opening to the Goal Line?

Please know that if you feel lots of doubt, it does not indicate what’s wrong with you. It merely reflects the reality of what you’re capable of — i.e. disruption. Alex Mathers wrote that in his Substack called Untethered Mind, in one of his many articles each week that always stops the scrolling and […]
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January 12, 2024
January 12, 2024
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Navigating the Complexities of Giftedness

Gifted professionals are everywhere in the world. They are the ones who can look beyond what is obvious to design a better cart, attach the wheels in new places, and pull hard to get things moving. Many times, they do so against all odds, and often alone. As Mary-Elaine Jacobsen writes in […]
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December 16, 2023
December 16, 2023
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A Different Kind of Bird Spotting

Birds of a Rare Feather, Inventors, and Gifted Share These Characteristics If you call yourself professional or think your work is worthwhile you are the core of our community. If you love to write or communicate in other ways and seem to show traits of giftedness, you are the trifecta winner in […]
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April 12, 2023
April 12, 2023
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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 […]
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October 7, 2022
October 7, 2022
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Being Interested In, Oh, Everything —The Gifted Professional and Wellth-Tech Consultant

If you are a gifted professional and you meet Kate Van Name, you quickly gain a double bonus of getting to know her and learning a lot about yourself.  Kate is fun, deep, complex, big-hearted compassionate, boldly intelligent, and thrives on unparalleled curiosity.   Depending on who she is talking to, that may […]
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May 10, 2022
May 10, 2022
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What Shows Others You’re a Gifted Professional Without You Having to Say It?

Raise your hand if you can remember a keynote speaker at a professional association convention who blew you away while still making you want to stay for more. Keep your hand up if you stopped your plans for the rest of the day, just to connect with that speaker.   Keep your hand […]
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