The Gifted Adult

by JACOBSEN, MARY-ELAINE

• ISBN13: 9780345434920
• ISBN10: 0345434927
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-11-28
• Publisher: Ballantine Books

Summary

Are you relentlessly curious and creative, always willing to rock the boat in order to get things done . . . extremely energetic and focused, yet constantly switching gears . . . intensely sensitive, able to intuit subtly charged situations and decipher others' feeling? If these traits sound familiar, then you may be an Everyday Genius--an ordinary person of unusual vision who breaks the mold and isn't afraid to push progress forward. . . . As thought-provoking as Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, psychologist Mary-Elaine Jacobsen's Gifted Adults draws on a wide range of groundbreaking research and her own clinical experience to show America's twenty million gifted adults how to identify and free their extraordinary potential. Gifted Adults presents the first practical tool for rating your Evolutionary Intelligence Quotient through an in-depth personality-type profile. Demystifying what it means to be a gifted adult, this book offers practical guidance for eliminating self-sabotage and underachievement, helping Everyday Geniuses and those who know, love, and work with them to understand and support the exceptional gifts inherent in these unique personality traits.

Author Biography

Mary-Elaine Jacobsen, PsyD, is a practicing psychologist and the director of Omega Point Resources for Talent Psychology and Gifted Development. She lives in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Identifying Everyday Genius

Beyond Giftedness: Everyday Genius

Defined

Giftedness Denied

The Gifted Adult

The Source of Giftedness

The Concept of Giftedness Expanded

The Five Facets of Freedom

Gifted?

Not Me

We Love Your Unique Products

Just Stop Being So Different!

Gifted?

Not Me: Unidentified Everyday Genius

Telltale Signs of Everyday Genius

Facing the Truth about Ourselves

Why Must I Know This about Myself?

How Can I Know

This about Myself Misconceptions about Giftedness

The Everyday Genius: Lost and Found

The Ugly Duckling

When a Duck is Not a Duck Seeing the Swan of Everyday Genius

The Everyday Genius Brought to Light

The Ugly Duckling Syndrome Know

Thyself or Lose Thyself

How Did the Swan Get Lost?

Lost In The IQ Game

What's Smart and What Is Not?

What is IQ, Really?

Beyond Outdated IQ

The Unexpected Gifted Adult Mistaken Identities by the Millions

The Everyday Genius Next Door

Standing What You "Know" on Its Head

The Everyday Genius Mind: The Same and Different

How "Different" Becomes "Wrong" Gifted Needs

The Destiny Question: Disown or Deliver?

Are There Others Like Me?

And Are They Normal?

Rebel, Nerd, or Marvel?

Reframing Genius

Evolutionary Intelligence

Evolutionary Intelligence: The Next Step Retesting the Waters of Intelligence

What's Evolution Got to Do with It?

The EvI Formula

The Evolutionary Intelligence

Profile

About the EvI

Profile

What the EvI Score Tells You Exploring Your EvIQ Score

Evolutionary Intelligence in Real Life

It Only Looks Revolutionary

After the Fact

What's "Wrong" With You is What's Right with you: Revealing and Healing Everyday Genius

Gifted or Cursed?

Correcting the "Too-Too" Misdiagnosis Déjà vu Gifted or Cursed?

My Own Beginnings Five Basic Truths About Giftedness

A Bittersweet Experience

The Essentials of Self-Discovery

The Real Enemy-Fitting

In The Ten Criticisms

Confronting the First Five Criticisms

Rewriting Personal History Criticism #10: "Why Don't You Slow Down?"

Criticism #9: "You Worry Abou

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