For and by gifted, talented and creative adults.
Posted in Creative, Dynamic Living, Gifted adults, Gifted women, Intellectual on Jul 3rd, 2011
Luxury and the gifted do not always sit comfortably together. We are intense. We are obsessive. Our work ethic can make us dismissive of others. Especially others whose casual ease with luxury can seem a moral insult. Yet by denying ourselves the same ease we also deny ourselves some access to love and perhaps to […]
Posted in Autonomy, Creative, Gifted adults, money, Theory on Jul 26th, 2010
I admit it. I was channel flipping. Suddenly, there was Suze Orman, finger pointing toward me and head thrust forward like Uncle Sam or Lord Kitchener in one of those “Your Country Needs YOU” recruitment posters. “. . . and remember,” Suze was concluding, “People first! Then money! Then things!” That brief glimpse is all […]
Posted in Autonomy, Dynamic Living, Essential information, Personal development, Social ease on Jun 4th, 2010
I’ve been struggling with my blog. Not for a lack of subjects, but rather for a lack of voice. I’ve been jumpy and unable to concentrate, constantly looking over my metaphorical shoulder to see if I’ve overlooked something more important and urgent than attending to these words. Yet I can’t see anything there beyond a […]
Posted in Creative, Essential information, Gifted adults, Personal development, Physical on Apr 20th, 2010
The treadmill’s a bore. The gym – sorry, fitness center – is ugly. The challenge of solving a complex creative problem is much more satisfying than spending time jogging. For these and other reasons, gifted, talented and creative people often find it hard to raise enthusiasm for exercise. Yet we are precisely the group that […]
Posted in Creative, Dynamic Living, Gifted adults, Personal development, Theory on Feb 2nd, 2010
I’m not a Christian but I do have a fondness for some of the parables I heard as a child. They nudge us out of complacency with their simple statements of natural truth. The parable of the sower has particular relevance for gifted adults because it highlights the vital – as in genuinely life-maintaining – […]
Posted in Gifted adults, Gifted women, Social ease, Theory on Dec 2nd, 2009
When I suggest to female friends or clients that they might be gifted they squirm, they get angry, they laugh it away. “Gifted? Moi? I don’t think so!” In itself this is not too much of a surprise. Many clients react to the realization of their giftedness in the same way I did: initial relief, […]
Posted in Creative, Gifted adults, Personal development, Theory on Nov 8th, 2009
Who was I? This is a recurring question for gifted adults because the intensity of our childhood experiencing has a direct bearing on our adult gifted success. It also offers valuable clues to understanding those things that don’t work so well for us. In particular, the question: “What fascinated me when I was three years […]
Posted in Dynamic Living, Essential information, Gifted adults, Uncategorized on Oct 6th, 2009
To Dynamic Living™ subscribers and others who’ve sought information from me: welcome to “The Gifted Way”. “The Gifted Way” covers the same kinds of topics as “Dynamic Living”, but in a more spontaneous and light-hearted way. I suppose it’s actually more dynamic. Many of you discovered that the effort of creating a new ezine each […]
Posted in Dynamic Living, Essential information, Theory on Aug 26th, 2009
“Know then thyself, presume not God to scan The proper study of mankind is man.” Those words by Alexander Pope were published in 1734. They are part of a poem whose psychological and philosophical content anticipates contemporary ideas of human nature so comprehensively that in some ways it seems extraordinary that we haven’t made greater […]
Posted in Dynamic Living, Theory on Aug 12th, 2009
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey. The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.” Wendell […]