O que fazer com adultos sobredotados?
Despite the enormous diversity within the gifted population, the goal of professional work should always be the same: for the gifted adults to re-encounter, explore and value the gifted self and allow it to grow in its own unique way. It is the professional's job to provide whatever each gifted individual needs in order for this to happen. Working with gifted adults ideally requires specialised theoretical knowledge, intellectual flexibility, emotional strength, spiritual development, high levels of sensitivity and empathy, a love of spirited discussion and above all, a great sense of humour. Professionals working with gifted adults strive for this ideal even though they will never attain it and so they continue to learn."
Characteristics of Gifted Adults:
• perfectionistic and sets high standards for self and others
• has strong moral convictions is highly sensitive, perceptive or insightful
• fascinated by words or an avid reader
• feels out-of-sync with others
• is very curious has an unusual sense of humour
• a good problem solver
• has a vivid and rich imagination
• questions rules or authority
• has unusual ideas or connects seemingly unrelated ideas
• thrives on challenge
• learns new things rapidly
• has a good long-term memory
• feels overwhelmed by many interests and abilities
• is very compassionate
• feels outrage at moral breaches that the rest of the world seems to take for granted
• has passionate, intense feelings
• has a great deal of energy
• can't switch off thinking
• feels driven by creativity
• loves ideas and ardent discussion
• needs periods of contemplation
• searches for ???? in their life
• feels a sense of alienation and loneliness
• is very perceptive
• feels out of step with others
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Amor próprio
"Partilhavam longos passeios pelo parque e uma assinatura na ópera. Ela apaixonou-se. Ele [o biólogo] não. Quando o biólogo começou a ignorá-la — a relação deles estava a provocar os habituais boatos vitorianos — Eliot escreveu-lhe uma série de cartas de amor melodramáticas e, no entanto, assustadoramente honestas. Suplicava a sua "misericórdia e amor": "Quero saber se me pode garantir que não me esquecerá, que estará ao meu lado sempre e o tempo que puder e que compartilhará os seus pensamentos e sentimentos comigo. Se se afeiçoar a outra pessoa eu morrerei, mas até esse dia, se o tivesse a meu lado, poderia reunir coragem para trabalhar e fazer alguma coisa da minha vida." Apesar das confissões de vulnerabilidade, a carta termina orgulhosamente com um reconhecimento do seu próprio valor: "Suponho que nenhuma mulher alguma vez escreveu uma carta como esta — mas não tenho vergonha dela, porque tenho consciência de que, à luz da razão e da verdadeira cultura, sou digna do seu respeito e afeição.""
Jonah Lehrer, in Proust era um Neurocientista, a propósito de George Eliot e Herbert Spencer
ainda os "gifted"
"Gifted people often grow up with a pervasive sense of being considered an extremist. [...] The criticisms they face often are leveled not at their performance but at their personhood."
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Characteristics of Creative Genius
I have always had an insatiable curiosity.
I am able to run my mind on multiple tracks at the same time.
I learn rapidly and retain / apply what I learn.
I tend to be very independent.
I tend to be less motivated than others are by rewards, bonuses, and praise.
At times I have asked embarrassing questions or rudely pointed out truths at the wrong time.
My preference for the complex can fool me into underestimating the simple answer.
I like to refine and improve others' innovations.
I feel comfortable with a wide range of emotions.
I can see many sides to nearly any issue.
Honesty, integrity, and ethics are important to me.
I can help others understand themselves better.
I am a seeker and champion of ultimate truths.
My nervous system is easily aroused, and I am able to discern the slightest changes in my environment (aromas, shifts in light, etc.) or detect irritants (e.g. scratchy sweater label).
I can feel along with and for others.
I set high standards for myself and for others and am my own worst critic.
I tend to look for consistency and security in systems, rules, and orderliness.
I am often considered a "driven" person. I have maintained my childlike sense of wonder.
I am intent on searching out universal truths.
I am deeply disturbed by inequity, exploitation, corruption, and needless human suffering.
I can and do work myself to exhaustion. Some people think I'm too serious.
I have always been interested in social reform.
I value and will defend diversity. I have a strong need to "make a difference."
I have a penchant for risk-taking.
I can and do ignore my own needs for the sake of others.
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Inteligência emocional
INSULTED
"You are ugly"
I know,
I've been told this.
"You are silly"
I know,
I have realized this.
"You look like an alien"
I know,
this has been pointed out to me.
"You have big eyes"
I know,
I have looked in the mirror.
"You can't be a pilot,
you are not smart enough"
It is possible,
I have considered this.
With every insult
you invent,
it is strange,
but it's true.
You point out
my many failings
and help me to improve.
As you highlight
my many
weaknesses,
you also highlight
my strengths.
My ugliness
leads to my kind
personality.
My silliness
brings laughter
to the world.
My resemblance to
movie aliens
only highlights
my intelligence.
My big eyes
portray my feelings
and widen my view.
I may not make it
as a pilot,
but I could be.
You see,
every insult
you invent
gives me a view
into your mind.
Although I have
many problems,
I feel sorry for you.
Why, oh why
do I feel sorry for you?
Because your mind
cannot break free.
The wall of insults
you build
limits your mind
of feelings.
So, soon,
if you don't stop,
you'll turn inhuman,
and have the biggest
problem of all:
Loneliness.
Think about it!
Memórias de Território / Fenomenol
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| William James / Walt Whitman |
Jonah Lehrer, in Proust era um Neurocientista
eheh. Façam o favor de experimentar!
Albert Einstein criou este teste e afirmou que 98% da população mundial não é capaz de resolvê-lo.
Aqui.
Ser sobredotado é..
"Sometimes you can't define as well as you can describe."
"The gifted are not going to be teacher pleasers, necessarily. They are not going to be kids that are always going to be on time, turn in the best work... They are not always going to follow the rules and they are not necessarily going to get straight "A"s."
"They sink deeply into concerns, they feel deeply for others. It's almost if they carry the burdens of the world on their shoulders."
"Being gifted is, actually, harder."
"The folks who are intelectually lonely, the one's who don't feel that there's anyone out there who understands them."
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Ikaria / Grécia
Ikaria, uma ilha com 159 km2 onde vivem cerca de 10,000 gregos, e que fica a 48 km da costa turca. As suas montanhas de cumes recortados erguem-se do mar Egeu. Antes da era Cristã, a ilha albergava florestas de carvalhos e vinhas produtivas. A sua reputação como destino de saúde remonta a 25 séculos, quando os gregos viajavam para aqui para mergulhar nas suas quentes águas termais perto de Therma. No século XVII, Joseph Georgirenes, bispo de Ikaria, descreveu a sua população como gente orgulhosa que dormia no chão. “As coisas mais louváveis nesta ilha,” disse ele, “são o ar e a água, ambos tão saudáveis que a população vive muitos anos, sendo normal encontrar aqui pessoas com 100 anos.”
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"Pes and Poulain were joined in the field by Dr. Antonia Trichopoulou of the University of Athens, an expert on the Mediterranean diet. She helped administer surveys, often sitting in village kitchens to ask subjects to reconstruct their childhood eating habits. She noted that the Ikarians’ diet, like that of others around the Mediterranean, was rich in olive oil and vegetables, low in dairy (except goat’s milk) and meat products, and also included moderate amounts of alcohol. It emphasized homegrown potatoes, beans (garbanzo, black-eyed peas and lentils), wild greens and locally produced goat milk and honey."
Um artigo muito interessante.
A mente e o cérebro
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| Início da Ilíada no seu idioma original, escrito cerca do Séc. VI a.C. |
"Partilho da opinião de Julian Jaynes de que algo de grande importância poderá ter acontecido à mente humana durante o lapso de tempo relativamente breve entre os acontecimentos narrados na Ilíada e os que compõem a Odisseia."
António Damásio, in O Livro da Consciência
"De uma forma geral, os gregos de Homero não tinham praticamente qualquer noção de uma vida interior do género daquela que nos parece tão óbvia. Sonhos, sentimentos e, especialmente, estados de espírito não eram experimentados pelos gregos homéricos como tendo lugar no espírito dos indivíduos. Pelo contrário, os estados de espírito eram públicos e partilhados e as pessoas sentiam-se arrastadas num estado de espírito partilhado como gotas de chuva num furacão."
Hubert Dreyfus e Sean Dorrance Kelly, in Um Mundo Iluminado
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| Início da Odisseia no seu idioma original, escrito cerca de finais do Séc. VIII a.C. |
"De uma forma geral, os gregos de Homero não tinham praticamente qualquer noção de uma vida interior do género daquela que nos parece tão óbvia. Sonhos, sentimentos e, especialmente, estados de espírito não eram experimentados pelos gregos homéricos como tendo lugar no espírito dos indivíduos. Pelo contrário, os estados de espírito eram públicos e partilhados e as pessoas sentiam-se arrastadas num estado de espírito partilhado como gotas de chuva num furacão."
Hubert Dreyfus e Sean Dorrance Kelly, in Um Mundo Iluminado
Behind the painted smile
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. [...] My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced freedom from the need for contact with other human beings and human communities. I “gang my ain gate” and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost an obstinate sense of detachment, of the need for solitude — a feeling which increases with the years. One is sharply conscious, yet without regret, of the limits to the possibility of mutual understanding and sympathy with one’s fellow creatures. Such a person no doubt loses something in the way of geniality and lightheartedness; on the other hand, he is largely independent of the opinions, habits and judgments of his fellows, and avoids the temptation to take his stand on such insecure foundations."
Einstein, 1940
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Gifts
“One of the basic characteristics of the gifted is their intensity and an expanded field of their subjective experience. The intensity, in particular; must be understood as a qualitatively distinct characteristic. It is not a matter of degree, but of a different quality of experiencing: vivid, absorbing, penetrating, encompassing, complex, commanding — a way of being quiveringly alive."
"The intensity of feeling which Piechowski describes is often characteristic of the intellectually gifted and is visible in their passionate love of learning. Dante called it “the mind in love.”
Piechowski, 1991, p. 181
No caldeirão
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| Virginia Woolf |
"For example, the restrictive and intense interests of someone with autism and the manic drive of a person with bipolar disorder might provide the necessary focus and determination for genius and creativity."
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Cultura e homeostase
"Em última análise, como a arte está profundamente enraizada na biologia e no corpo humano mas pode elevar os seres humanos às mais altas cumeadas do pensamento e do sentimento, as artes tornaram-se numa via para o refinamento homeostático que os seres humanos acabaram por idealizar e ansiaram por alcançar, o equivalente biológico de uma dimensão espiritual nas questões humanas."
António Damásio, in O Livro da Consciência
António Damásio, in O Livro da Consciência
Recollections
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| A Criação de Adão, Michelangelo |
"A partir do momento em que o eu autobiográfico se torna capaz de funcionar com base no conhecimento gravado nos circuitos cerebrais e nos registos externos de pedra, argila ou papel, os seres humanos passam a conseguir associar as necessidades biológicas individuais à sapiência acumulada. Começa assim um longo processo de pesquisa, reflexão e reacção, representando ao longo da história humana nos mitos, nas religiões, nas artes e em variadas estruturas inventadas para reger o comportamento social — moralidade, sistemas de justiça, economia, política, ciência e tecnologia. A derradeira consequência da consciência chega através da memória. Trata-se da memória adquirida através de um filtro de valores biológicos e animada pelo raciocínio."
António Damásio, in O Livro da Consciência
Desconfortos revisitados / Déjà Vu
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| Sam Riley em "On The Road", de Walter Salles |
"Num bar, em Bozeman, bebemos uma última rodada de cerveja e eu discuto estradas de regresso com o John. Depois dizemos coisas superficiais acerca de como tudo foi bom e que voltaremos a ver-nos uns aos outros em breve, e de súbito torna-se muito triste termos de falar assim, como conhecidos casuais."
Robert M. Pirsig, in A Arte da Manutenção de Motociclos
