Giftedness traits and personality
After reading this article, from which I pasted only some parts below here, I’m coming to a realisation I might have to place the traits of giftedness much more central in my life and take it much more seriously.
I don’t think there is a single short text, that made me feel like I’m looking in a mirror as much as the one linked here. I’m almost considering printing this stuff out to remind me that this is who I am, and that abandoning myself often means abandoning some of these traits, like a hunger for information that is way beyond what is expected or considered normal, and difficulties with communicating myself in a way that makes me feel like expressing myself adequately.
I’m curious if others relate to this text as well, since one of the things mentioned in there is also finding peers which obviously would be beneficial for many reasons.
Some parts from the text:
- Because of this, the high+ gifted are often able to relatively quickly grasp the essential part of highly complex ideas. They are then able to reason through any given idea in relationship to their developed matrix – in the process, adding not only the given complex idea to the matrix, but also adding the complex relationships between the given idea and the existing matrix, as well as the new relationships that form in the synergistic interaction of the idea with the matrix.
- For them, there really is no “good enough” point; everything is subject to change and question! There is never a place to stay, never real ground beneath their feet. Every supposed answer only generates a series of new questions, as though what most consider knowledge and facts were only a portal to more mystery and intrigue. Life, for the high+ gifted is like a never-ending puzzle!
- This is why high+ gifted people often seem so out of sync with those around them. The question “how are you today?” can feel extremely complex (How am I about which aspect of my life? Why are you asking? How should I be? and so on); but the question “do you believe time is real?” is quick and easy to answer (well, almost!). The first question might exhaust a high+ gifted thinker, whereas the second question might exhaust an average thinker.
- Because of the rarity of true peers that many high+ gifted people have in their lives, many often feel a physical, almost primal need to communicate the extreme mental and emotional intensity they have held back for years in an effort to fit in or not overwhelm or confuse others.
- In the high+ gifted, this abstract thinking might continue on to, for example, connect colors, the experience of the human eye, the nature of art, the nature of objects, the nature of emotion, the nature of seeing, the nature of perception, the interconnection of any and all aspects of the world, as expressed through the one present moment of looking at that painting.
- Put in the simplest of terms, the mild+ gifted have an uncommon need to know and understand complex ideas, and the high+ gifted have the greatest need. If the mild+ gifted don’t need imposed structure, the high+ gifted often reject it altogether, and this sometimes violently.
- At any moment, a high+ gifted person may be speaking, be aware of what they are saying, and at the same time, have another ongoing voice (or voices) or awareness in their own mind analyzing what they are saying, as well as actively presenting the possible counterarguments that could be waged on what they are saying or how they are saying it (or writing, or otherwise expressing).