The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius(tm)

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Random House Publishing Group, Nov 28, 2000 - Psychology - 416 pages
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.
 

Contents

Gifted? Not
22
Lost and Found
34
Lost in the IQ Game
48
Standing What You Know on Its Head
61
The Next Step
79
The Evolutionary Intelligence Profile
92
Gifted or Cursed?
125
Five Basic Truths About Giftedness
134
Managing Intensity Complexity
287
Managing Feeling
295
Becoming Superconscious
303
Five Strokes of Genius for Being Successfully Different
315
SelfLiberation
353
Acknowledgments
379
22
384
Recommended Reading
387

Confronting the First Five Criticisms
141
Getting Free from the Top Five Criticisms
165
Meeting the False Self
182
How Assets Can Become Liabilities
205
Intensity
253

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About the author (2000)

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.

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