Your Rainforest Mind: A Guide to the Well-Being of Gifted Adults and Youth by Paula Prober

Author:Paula Prober [Prober, Paula]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: career, favourite, giftedness, multipotentialite, psychology
Publisher: GHF Press
Published: 2016-06-18T18:30:00+00:00

Others often tell me that “you need to focus your interests” or “you must not like to be successful if you leave once you get good at something” or that I’m “flakey.” Also sometimes I see connections between things that may not be obvious or important to others. I seem disorganized and unfocused. My problem is I love to learn a job, then I optimize the job to do it in the fastest possible way, then I’m bored, and I want to move on to something else.

In one session, Rebecca questioned her passion for learning. She wondered if she should try to be “more Zen”—more in the present moment—whether she was walking her dog or gazing at the trees in her neighborhood. When she was involved in personal projects, she found that it would take time to dive in and get into flow, but once immersed, she would not resurface for hours. She was concerned that she was spending too much time alone, although she admitted that she enjoyed the mental gymnastics.

“Immersion learning” is a common learning style for RFMs, and Rebecca’s tendency to get engrossed in a subject was not abnormal for an RFM. I suggested she think about how she might allow herself to be both Zen and obsessed at the same time, accepting that research was her version of fun.

At another session, Rebecca described her continuing discomfort when communicating with people, even her fellow students. She reported that when she did try talking with her peers, she felt welcomed, but they did not seem to get her humor. She was thinking of broad, complex concepts during the week, so when her peers asked her what she was working on, she could not come up with a simple straightforward answer. She was not interested in pop culture, either, so this limited her conversational topics.

Interestingly, Rebecca told me about a summer program she had attended at a university a year prior run by an environmental sustainability group. Studying with bright, creative students from around the world, she was in her element. She described a man from Brazil with whom she spoke at such a fast pace that they were speaking over each other, yet they were both just fine with it. Laughing, she recalled that their rapid-fire exchange allowed them to communicate so much more.

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