The Gifted Way

Several years ago I published an ezine called “Dynamic Living”, subtitled: “A monthly ezine for people who live thoughtfully and with purpose.”

It was my first effort at producing something which would be of relevance to the gifted community and – being a typical INTJ – it was over-ambitious for my available resources.

Many of its articles are still relevant today, however, so I publish them here. I hope you enjoy them. I’ve grouped them loosely by subject.

Some of them are quite long so if you want to read them you might be better off printing them out first.

[The transposition from the old format to the new is a bit time-consuming so I’m adding them a few at a time. Eventually there will be links to each article. Sorry if you’re disappointed first time round. cjc]

General Relevance

• What is Dynamic Living?
  * What is Dynamic Living?
• Can you hear the flower sing? Issues for Gifted Adults
  * Enhance your emotional intelligence with some profound insights into the awareness and social interactions of highly gifted adults. By D. Lovecky Ph.D.
• Profiting from your own intelligence system
  * Discover the super-sensitive being that is your organism.
• Is there such a thing as a Geographical Cure?
  * How to tell whether a ‘geographical cure’ is likely to work or only postpone the inevitable.
• Love: a practical understanding
  * A practical guide to love – or, rather, a guide to a practical approach to love. Includes an easy-to-apply formula for telling when you’re in love, and how much or how little.

Intrapersonal Issues

• Love Yourself and Grow Powerful
  * Increase your personal power and success with this unusual and very practical approach to developing self-love.
• Become prorectic: let all your appetites bear fruit
  * Discover the route to a prorectic way of life which will enrich your daily existence even as it opens your appetite for even more self-discovery.
• Have you hugged your anger today?
  * Find out why recognizing and accepting your anger can be a major help in life: and how to achieve it.
• Know (and love) your Type
  * Why it’s important to know your psychological type – and how to.

Interpersonal Issues

• Turning  frustration into harmonious co-existence
  * Discover how to turn times of conflict into opportunities for creative development. Learn about your own conflict style – and how you might modify to bring yourself and your partners greater personal success.
• Propagating Trust: the Oxygen of Productive Relationships
  * Develop insight into the complex subject of trust. Learn to protect yourself against repeated betrayals and propagate trust-based growth in your own relationships.
• How to find the perfect gift – dynamically
  * A 12-step guide on how to buy the exact present for that most important person in your life.
• Checking assumptions promotes harmony
  * A quick look at a way to remind yourself that setting expectations and checking assumptions is a great way to sustain harmonious co-existence.
• How to maintain your autonomy in a collaborative partnership
  * Take a deep look at the challenging goal of collaboration and see whether you can improve your relationships and your life.
• How effective a collaborator are you?
  * Take the tests and see where you, your partner(s) and your organization stand in the collaboration stakes.
• Let self-understanding improve your relationships
  * The value of gaining insight into your partner, and a simple test to help.
• Connection: the human growth factor
  * The power of connections: how they can be conscious and unconscious; how they cannot ever be broken; and how to make sure you use them effectively.

Work-related Issues

• The Gifted Adult at Work: Authoritative vs Authoritarian
  * How to spot an authoritarian boss in time to protect yourself. How to understand them and even make them work for you.
• Manifesting Intention: Building a life’s work, not just a work-life
  * A look at the workplace and how to build an uninspiring work-for-hire job into a fufilling Life’s-work life.
• Using your power effectively
  * How to use power effectively