The Dragon Slayer's Guide to Life

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Interesting Articles on Gifted Adults

Social & Emotional Issues: What Gifted Adults Say About Their Childhoods

Arousing the Sleeping Giant: Giftedness in Adult Psychotherapy

Optimum Intelligence: My Experience as a Too Gifted Adult

Self-Knowledge, Self-Esteem and the Gifted Adult

Gifted and Vague

Is Your Different Drummer Insane or Are You A Gifted Adult?

Once there was a fish. Respectable. Hard working. Kind. Intelligent.

A very fine fish, really.

But it had been trying to live in a tree.

Sound familiar? 

I recently read The Gifted Adult by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen, Psy.D. and want to give you my take on it as I found it to be a worthwhile read and have recommended it to several of my clients.  If you are familiar with Wellspring Coaching's famous fish in the tree here, this book made me realize that my most favorite clients (yes, I have them) have been a certain kind of fish in a certain kind of tree. It's long been a running joke that my practice niche is "Misfit Toys" and this book, formerly entitled "Liberating Everyday Genius", goes a fair distance to explain just how accurate that is.