Category: Bright Adults & Life Stories
Some Families of Profoundly Gifted Kids Worked With and Around the Schools
Five more examples of participants during their school years in the longitudinal study Several Level Four and Five youngsters who lived in large metropolitan areas were able to attend the actual main campus universities for their post-secondary concurrent educations. Because they were still younger than most students, the environment provided good opportunities for interactions with […]
Behind the Pages: How My Story Shapes What I Write
A Candid Look at My Life, Lessons, and Where My Ideas Come From The picture below is of me when I was five years old. If you like old (vintage, classic) cars, you’ll try to guess the year. This is part of my background story. You see, it’s always been the case with me that […]
What Do I Want From My Life?
Thoughts shared by highly intelligent Baby Boomers when they were in their 40s and 50s during the 1990s My website and blog posts cover age ranges from birth to death. I tell you what I know (and what I think you would like to know, too) about the people I have worked with and interviewed […]
Top 3 Ways to Keep in Touch!
As I step back from the digital highway to focus more on writing, you won’t see regular updates here. However, I do want to leave you with a clear path to keep in touch! Here are the top 4 ways to reach me… collaborative, and helps you find the right readers for whatever you have […]
7 Case Studies of Moral and Personal Growth in Gifted Adults at Midlife through a Dąbrowski Lens
A short summary of the case study results Kazimierz Dąbrowski was a Polish psychologist, psychiatrist and physician. He is known for his theory of “positive disintegration” as a mechanism in personality development. I first learned about it in the early 1990s and included an examination of it in my doctoral dissertation, Environmental, familial, and personal […]
Gifted Baby Boomers: How They Were Raised, and How They Raised You
… and how it might still be affecting you, your parenting, and your relationships This article is about the generations before you. If you are currently raising gifted children in 2026, you are probably from the Millenial, X, or Z generations. Some readers here are Baby Boomers, and this article can open your eyes as […]
Downsizing My Digital Footprint!
In order to focus on writing, I am downsizing my digital footprint to reduce the number of platforms where my writing will be shared. In addition to publishing print and digital books, I will continue to post on Substack and on Medium, and I invite you to keep in touch there!
The 5 Levels of Gifted Children Grown Up: a Longitudinal Study
I want to put an end to a waste of talent and ability that not only hurts individuals but limits all of us. I’m a High Intelligence Specialist. Literally. Some people write for fame and profit; I write to share my own hard won wisdom and give people access to their real selves and their […]
Sex, Gender, and the Election — Part 1 of 3
A Sex and Gender Specialist Explains the Primal Reasons Behind the 2024 Election I first encountered Michael Gurian’s work in 2003. I started to buy copies of his book, What Could He Be Thinking? How a Man’s Mind Really Works so that I could both recommend it to my clients, the parents of gifted children, and sell […]
Why the Gifted Emigrate, Immigrate, or Migrate
Why Do So Many Gifted Adults and Families Come to the United States? If you’ve read my previous posts, you know I have addressed the topic of the “relativity of giftedness.” See my post Giftedness is Relative. I also cover the reality that not all gifted — even the profoundly gifted — get good grades in school. And yet, most […]