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Gifted Grownups

Door Streznewski, Marylou Kelly
Engels | Hardcover | 1999  


What is it like to be smarter than 95% of the people you meet? Fifty four year old Alison says, "They told me I was smart and I cried. I wanted to be sexy, or glamorous!" Jean, 38, laments, "I learned the whole job in six weeks, and now Im bored." Gifted Grownups, Marylou Kelly Streznewskis unprecedented, 10 year study of 100 gifted adults, examines how being identified as a "smart kid" early on affects career choices, friendships, and romantic pairings later in life. Why do some talented and gifted people become Mozarts and Einsteins or corporate chieftains, while others drop out of school, struggle to hold down jobs, or turn to self destructive behavior? What are the signs of giftedness, its pitfalls, and its promise? Marylou Streznewski provides answers to these and other questions, and creates an intriguing picture of what it is like to have an accelerated mind in a slow moving world. Traditionally, the gifted were measured in terms of intelligence only, and anyone with an IQ score higher than 130 was automatically grouped in with that misunderstood minority. Recently "giftedness" has been redefined to include qualities like extraordinary creative, leadership, or physical skills. Heightened perception, sensitivity, humor, and the ability to put complex ideas together quickly are also aspects of giftedness. These gifts affect the way talented adults react to their friends, families, jobs, and life challenges. Doing for gifted grownups what the best selling Driven to Distraction did for adults with attention deficit, Gifted Grownups traces many types of gifted adults, including the high testing, power achieving Striver; the popular scholar or athlete Superstar; and the creative intellectual, free spirit Independent. Here for the first time and in their own words, 100 gifted grownups, from ages 18 to 90, and a variety of family and educational backgrounds, occupations, social classes, and races, count the blessings and tally the costs of a high powered mind.


Streznewski, Marylou Kelly
NUR Code
235x159x32 mm
590 gram


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