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High+ Giftedness: Marching to a different drum
Since writing about my own experiences as a highly gifted individual, a specific kind of people found their way to Your Evolving Self for career development support.
Many of them were not merely gifted in the usual sense. They showed a level of complexity, speed, intensity, alienation, autonomy and inner pressure that pointed to something more specific. Some had formal IQ test results. Many did not. But in conversation, the pattern was often unmistakable:
They were not just quicker thinkers, they were operating from a different inner architecture. They were marching to a different drum.
The Dark Face Of Empathy And How To Lighten It Up
Empathy has exceptional PR. In leadership, coaching, HR and cultural work, it is often treated as a moral trump card: more empathy means better people, better organizations, better everything! But that equation is incomplete.
In its healthy form, empathy helps us understand another person’s inner reality without losing our own center. In its unhealthy form, it becomes emotional fusion, moral theater, or self-image maintenance. A blog about the Dark Face of Empathy and how to lighten it up.
A Gifted Hunter in a Farmer's World
Are you above average intelligent, inventive and do you regularly feel inhibited by the limiting influence of the existing systems in society and their representatives? Do you experience a kind of social claustrophobia that prevents you from developing your full potential? Are you easily bored, do you like to find solutions and do you like speed and progress? Are repetition and predictability not your thing? Then you might very well just be a Gifted Hunter in a Farmer's World. The good news is that you have something special to offer that is much needed right now. The bad news is that society is not necessarily ready for you yet. Still, you can as a Gifted Hunter really start to make a difference and come into your own when you understand how you’re wired and, with that in mind, start actively influencing your environment. You can read more about this in this blog that concludes with the Gifted Hunter Hypothesis.