Are their skills that just aren’t as much of a priority to hone for gifted folks and non gifted?
It’s just a thought… but are their certain skills that some people just don’t “need” and other people need more of but we as a society universally consider useful?
This will be weird… I’m bored.
I have a coworker that is self described as addicted to Mountain Dew, which is weird to me because this person is very educated and to me surely knows the health consequences of consuming the amount of Mountain Dew she does. In addition, she’s has a clinical health education that I assume affords her the ability to make high level connections and judgements. I just don’t understand how she flaunts the addiction with the position and education she holds in our business. Although she’s educated, I have never personally picked up that she is gifted in our interactions. She leads several teams I’m part of, but h struggle sitting through her meetings. Like she communicates with the majority decent enough, but the line of thinking she pushes is so basic and linear it’s challenging for me not to let the complexity breathe while I sit through another of her meetings….
Idk how that all connects to Mountain Dew addiction, I digress, but overall I just wonder if she has some skill that I just never needed as a gifted person and therefore I don’t have?
As my mind wanders and she tries to explain some graph I don’t think she even understands…. I wonder if in society we have these expectations of skills we need to teach our (probably gifted) kids that they really don’t actually need because of their level of cognitive ability?