Specialists do certain things well. They are excellent craftsmen, they have a deep knowledge of their chosen profession, they’re focused and detail oriented.
Multipotentialites are skilled in varying degrees depending on the passion. For example, after twelve years of classical violin training, I’m a pretty solid violinist. Compare that to the three years I spent in law school...
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Emilie Wapnick asks "Wouldn't it be nice if, instead of What do you do?, people asked, What are you passionate about?" Learn about her program the Renaissance Business system - "Designed Specifically for the Multi-Passionate Entrepreneur." http://theinnerentrepreneur.com/RenaissanceBusiness
EVERYONE KNOWS Satyajit Ray was a great filmmaker. But not many are aware that he was also a prolific composer, writer, illustrator and designer who created hundreds of advertising campaigns, wrote and illustrated books for children and adults, edited magazines and...
These are some of the examples of multitalented people in my book: "Developing Multiple Talents: The personal side of creative expression." http://developingmultipletalents.com
One of multiple reviews: "Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource." - Stephanie S. Tolan, fiction writer and consultant on the needs of the gifted.
Alissa Quart read at age 3 and wrote her first novel when she was 7, and "writes about pressures put on children, especially gifted children and prodigies, that encourage perfectionism, performance anxiety and lifelong feelings of not being able to keep up," according to a newspaper article ["Prodigies and the push to excel," by Debora Vrana, Los Angeles Times Sept 30 2006.]
Her father especially, Quart said, was "hell-bent on bettering my lot — and by extension our family’s lot — and keep me from languishing in what he considered the Blank Generation." He "drilled her on such cultural trivia as the names of B-movie actresses, and on revolutionary movements and vocabulary. Some parents see gifted children as some sort of insurance as they try to navigate the middle class without a safety net, Quart said.
The article adds, "Quart names this pressure to achieve the ‘Icarus Effect,’ after the story of Icarus. who flew too high, the wings melted and he fell to the sea. While Quart never fell into the sea, she said she struggled with a ‘distinct feeling of failure’ as she grew older, in part because of the high expectations placed on her."
Alissa Quart is the author of Hothouse Kids: The Dilemma of the Gifted Child. http://vsb.li/ldewVb
http://talentdevelop.com/3594/ - There are many deeply rewarding aspects of being gifted and talented, creative, with exceptional abilities, or being highly sensitive. But there can also be emotional and mental health challenges, including anxiety.
Many people may find the advice to "Find your passion" to be useless or even fearful. Author Daniel Pink has said, "What’s your passion? I find that almost paralyzing, in a way. I find it less paralyzing to say, What are you interested in doing next?”
In a New York Times op-ed, David Brooks pointed out that Mozart's early compositions "were nothing special. They were pastiches of other people’s work." He added, "Mozart was a good musician at an early age, but he would not stand out among today’s top child-performers. "What Mozart had, we now believe, was the ability to focus for long periods of time and a father intent on improving his skills."
'Giftedness alone does not make the creative process easier, for "making new" is difficult at any level of ability. Simply being "creative" is also inadequate because many people have ideas they never develop, or give up when the going gets tough. The difference between a creative person and a creative producer is hard work.
"Those who actually produce the play, build the rocket, find the cure, and write the novel don't let their ideas collect dust on the "tomorrow" shelf. They dig in, often before they feel completely ready, and keep digging until they unearth what they are searching for.
"It is the unglamorous, relentless, dirty-hands effort that eventually turns a drawing into a masterpiece and a melody into a concerto. When excellence is the goal, nothing less will do.' - From The Gifted Adult: A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius, by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen, PsyD. http://vsb.li/OZoZ0F ~~ See list of articles by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen: http://talentdevelop.com/articlelive/authors/39/Mary%252dElaine-Jacobsen ~~ Photo: "Follow your inner moonlight; don't hide the madness." -Allen Ginsberg [For photo source, see Facebook post https://www.facebook.com/HighAbility/posts/254605074659784
Counselors and Therapists specializing in gifted, high ability, creative people, plus Coaches for creative and highly sensitive people.
“When I started going to therapy there wasn’t a specific, clear, rational thing that made me start, but as soon as I did, everything in my life changed, almost immediately… There’s another part of me working that isn’t the intellectual side — the unconscious — and that was not awake most of my life. Not actively. There were times when it would push through, but now I feel I’m really honoring it.” Maggie Gyllenhaal. An acclaimed actor, she is also a graduate of Columbia University in literature and Eastern religions.
Kathryn Bigelow became winner of the first Academy Award ever presented to a female director, for her outstanding Best Picture winner, The Hurt Locker.
In an interview about her work as writer-director of Blue Steel (1989), Bigelow noted, “If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies."
My book is a brief overview of some key personality and life issues that can affect how well we access and express multiple creative talents. Douglas Eby
“Packed full of insights and resources for the creative life, Developing Multiple Talents offers new ways to thrive as a creative person..." - Cynthia Morris, Writing and creativity coach
“Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.” – Stephanie S. Tolan, fiction writer and consultant on the needs of the gifted.
Research indicates the cause of the underachievement of many gifted students may be their creativity, which tends to clash with traditional school environments.
“Einstein is a classic example of a highly creative and highly gifted individual that did not do well in traditional school environments.” That is a quote by Kyung Hee Kim, PhD. She thinks “the cause of the underachievement of many gifted and talented students may be their creativity, which tends to clash with traditional school environments."
High school athletes are the pride of their communities. But if we want to inspire kids to write well, we should be putting our best young scholars on display.
“I feel there are two people inside me – me and my intuition. If I go against her, she’ll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.” – Kim Basinger
Many other artists talk about using intuitive guidance in their work and lives.
But it can be a challenge for people who are predominantly intellectual to acknowledge and make use of intuition.
Linda Kreger Silverman, Ph.D. notes, “Individuals with higher intelligence are likely to be well educated. Higher education indoctrinates students to think logically and skeptically and to dismiss intuitive information.
"Talent will out." If that old aphorism were really true, those with the highest potential to make the world better would inevitably have the opportunities and power to provide a constant supply of art masterpieces, to lead medical, political and business organizations, or otherwise realize their advanced potentials. What keeps so many talented people from realizing their abilities?
Being highly talented and exceptional can engender a complex mix of feelings about your self and how you relate to your advanced abilities, and to the world.
Mary-Elaine Jacobsen writes about clients “coming to grips with his or her giftedness, and what that means when re-discovery unlocks feelings of guilt, remorse, regret, anger, and fears about expectations.”
Rachel Weisz felt guilt over her success. ‘Any success – getting a good degree, getting an agent, getting on TV. As if somehow by doing well, I was depriving someone else of something – it could be anyone, sister, mother, friend And it all became a bit too much. I didn’t feel I had the right.’
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Some gifted people may have a fear of failure or success related to living up to the label, or have an aversion to being thought “elitist”, “superior”, or “hogging all the glory” — and they may feel guilt, shame, or other destabilizing feelings about being exceptional. Highly talented women, according to some research, may hide abilities in order to survive socially.
From my book Developing Multiple Talents: The personal side of creative expression http://t.co/KqYN0ORZ
Jocelyn Lavin: Child prodigies may have an easy ride at school – but as I found, they can face difficulties in later life...I didn't find anything difficult until I went to university and realised that the first assignment required hard work and couldn't be dashed off while I was eating, as I'd been used to.
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A Psychology Today article – Why Prodigies Fail – says that most childhood prodigies never fulfill their promise. "Perseverance is a key part of it," says Robert Root-Bernstein of Michigan State University. "Many of them say that their expectations were warped by their early experiences." The article notes, "When success comes too easily, prodigies are ill prepared for what happens when the adoration goes away, their competitors start to catch up and the going gets rough." (He is co-author with Michele Root-Bernstein of Sparks of Genius: The Thirteen Thinking Tools of the World’s Most Creative People. http://vsb.li/rQw884 ~~ Quoted in my book Developing Multiple Talents: The personal side of creative expression http://t.co/KqYN0ORZ
http://highability.org/537/ - Excerpts from a webinar by SENG: "Understanding Overexcitabilities -- The Joys and the Challenges," presented by Susan Daniels,...
Individual differences exist, but genius is ultimately made.
"Genius involves figuring out who you are, and owning yourself. It's about amplifying your best traits and compensating for the rest. Geniuses grab life by the horns, and persevere amidst setbacks. They take control of their lives, instead of waiting for others to open up doors. In this very important sense, greatness is completely, utterly, made." Scott Barry Kaufman.
More quotes in post: Scott Barry Kaufman on Kick-starting Your Creativity
Claire Danes recalls she was bullied often at school. "There was one troubled girl who would get very excited about the idea of torturing me. I did struggle. In junior high I really struggled. It was just agony, truly. I lived in constant fear. I got twitchy because of it, and then I just removed myself from any normal social situations."
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Also see post: Lily Cole and gifted kids being bullied
“I feel there are two people inside me – me and my intuition. If I go against her, she’ll screw me every time, and if I follow her, we get along quite nicely.” – Kim Basinger
Many other artists talk about using intuitive guidance in their work and lives.
But it can be a challenge for people who are predominantly intellectual to acknowledge and make use of intuition.
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