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Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential
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Item Description...
What is it like to be smarter than 95% of the people you meet? Fifty-four-year-old Alison says, "They told me I was smart and I cried. I wanted to be sexy, or glamorous " Jean, 38, laments, "I learned the whole job in six weeks, and now I'm bored."
Gifted Grownups, Marylou Kelly Streznewski's unprecedented, 10-year study of 100 gifted adults, examines how being identified as a "smart kid" early on affects career choices, friendships, and romantic pairings later in life. Why do some talented and gifted people become Mozarts and Einsteins or corporate chieftains, while others drop out of school, struggle to hold down jobs, or turn to self-destructive behavior? What are the signs of giftedness, its pitfalls, and its promise? Marylou Streznewski provides answers to these and other questions, and creates an intriguing picture of what it is like to have an accelerated mind in a slow-moving world.
Traditionally, the gifted were measured in terms of intelligence only, and anyone with an IQ score higher than 130 was automatically grouped in with that misunderstood minority. Recently "giftedness" has been redefined to include qualities like extraordinary creative, leadership, or physical skills. Heightened perception, sensitivity, humor, and the ability to put complex ideas together quickly are also aspects of giftedness. These gifts affect the way talented adults react to their friends, families, jobs, and life challenges. Doing for gifted grownups what the bestselling Driven to Distraction did for adults with attention deficit, Gifted Grownups traces many types of gifted adults, including the high-testing, power-achieving Striver; the popular scholar or athlete Superstar; and the creative intellectual, free-spirit Independent. Here for the first time and in their own words, 100 gifted grownups, from ages 18 to 90, and a variety of family and educational backgrounds, occupations, social classes, and races, count the blessings and tally the costs of a high-powered mind. "Highly informative and interesting."--Alice Miller, author of The Drama of the Gifted Child
"This book was a delight. It affirmed my own experiences and observations. The author makes her study come alive . . . through the voices of real people talking about their experiences. . . . I highly recommend this book.i--Joanne Rand Whitmore, PhD, Professor and Dean College and Graduate School of Education, Kent State University
"Many readers will recognize their own experiences.--Lita Linzer Schwartz, PhD, ABPP Distinguished Professor Emerita, Pennsylvania State University.
"This thoughtful book . . . has taken us one step further in our understanding of how and why some talented individuals realize their potential while others do not."--Dr. Sally M. Reis, Professor of Educational Psychology, The University of Connecticut.
"Gifted Grownups meets a long-awaited need. This book would be of interest, not only to gifted education professionals, but also to parents, teachers in general, and to gifted individuals of all ages.--E. Paul Torrance, Georgia Studies of Creative Behavior, author of Gifted and Talented Children in the Regular Classroom. ISBN 0-471-29580-9 |
Item Specifications...
Pages 292
Dimensions: Length: 9.33" Width: 6.37" Height: 1.17"
Weight: 1.28 lbs.
Binding Hardcover
Publisher Wiley
ISBN 0471295809
EAN 9780471295808
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 | Highly recommended Dec 10, 2008 |
| The cases illustrated in the book are very useful and informative. I am now have better understanding of the people around me. | | |  | Good but a little unscientific Sep 5, 2007 |
This book is a collection of anecdotal evidences of gifted grownup's behavior. The author interviewed 100s of gifted grownups and segmented all the interviews in seperate topics.
Although it is great to know that there are someone like me out there, the book should be more scientific about their criteria and also offer more "packed" content other than rearranging the interviews. | | |  | I did not like this book as much as I would have liked... Jun 13, 2007 |
My reason for not liking this book as much, and it it's truly not a knock against the author, is that it does not explore the area of unrealized potential as deeply as I would have liked.
That is the problem that I have always had the biggest issue with is that those who do exhibit gifted qualities, so often, find themselves in such negative straits because they have nowhere to place their minds or have no idea that that is what their problem is. | | | | Brought me a New Perspective on my Life Aug 27, 2006 |
| I read this book seven years ago and it still stays with me. This is a very very important book and should be read by everyone in education. I grew up in a shcool district that didn't know the meaning of the word "gifted." Teachers always told me to be quiet because I was "making the other kids feel bad" with my intelligence. I ended up being so bored with life because I never had anywhere near enough mental stimulation. What the author describes in this book helped me understand so many things about my childhood and adulthood and how my "giftedness" and the failure of those around me to accept it has affected my life. So many things finally made sense to me that didn't for decades. I agree with the author that by negelcting "gifted" people, young and old, we are wasting valuable resources. It is not that "gifted" people are better than others, but we need to recognize that they have different needs. This book is fabulous and helped me tremendously. | | | | How-to gifted guide, but for grown-ups Jun 2, 2006 |
| When I bought this book from this site, I thought that it was just reminiscences of adults who had grown up gifted, and bought it for that. However, it is more fun than that. It is a genuine gifted guide book like the books written about gifted children, with one difference: it is about the grown-up world. So there is information on how to survive the workplace as a gifted adult, giving lots of "yep, that's me" feelings, showing that behaviour that could be considered immature (frequent job-swapping, doing stuff at the last minute, surfing while working) are all valid survival techniques in a world that is not an exact fit. | | | Write your own review about Gifted Grownups: The Mixed Blessings of Extraordinary Potential
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