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Exceptional people are often exceptional because they don't spend time worrying about whether or not they are exceptional or classifiable as such. Find a probl

Exceptional people are often exceptional because they don't spend time worrying about whether or not they are exceptional or classifiable as such. Find a problem, a passion, and love it. Forget yourself. The moment you're convinced you're some sort of 'type' it's over. You'll set up ridiculous expectations, founded on nothing, and defeat yourself at every impasse because you aren't fitting the type/persona/image you've crafted for yourself. It's good to have small, concrete goals. It's bad to have hopes. Or at least that's my experience. And it takes a long time to crawl out of the ravine of disappointment and frustration that sort of attitude eventually creates. Leave the needless typifying, categorizing, and psychologizing to the psychologists. So many people seem to think they just need to correctly identify what kind or type of human being they are--oh I'm a INFJ, PB&J or whatever--and they'll have figured it all out. It doesn't work like that. That's just a desire for the easy way out. Truth is there is no easy answer. Localized contingencies and circumstances way beyond your own control shape who you are and your opportunities. Existence precedes essence, as Sartre might say. You are, though the same as everyone else, also unrepeatable. For the Greeks, one wasn't a genius, one was lucky enough to have a genius. Furthermore, everyone had a little bit of genius following them around. I think there's some benefits to decoupling ability and the ego in that manner--some benefit in placing our gifts, once more, in the hands of the gods. Don't sweat it.

Mz 9y ago
Exceptional people are often exceptional because they don't spend time worrying about whether or not they are exceptional or classifiable as such. People who have a disability generally benefit from getting a proper diagnosis. Twice exceptional people often have terrible self esteem problems due to a long track record of failing to perform as well as they expect of themselves and as well as others around them expect of them. Learning that they actually are smart, but also have a handicap, is often life changing in a very positive way. Getting proper accommodation for the handicap can be incredibly empowering and allow them to start hitting some of the marks they have long desired, but kept failing to reach.

Mz 9y ago

Exceptional people are often exceptional because they don't spend time worrying about whether or not they are exceptional or classifiable as such. People who have a disability generally benefit from getting a proper diagnosis. Twice exceptional people often have terrible self esteem problems due to a long track record of failing to perform as well as they expect of themselves and as well as others around them expect of them. Learning that they actually are smart, but also have a handicap, is often life changing in a very positive way. Getting proper accommodation for the handicap can be incredibly empowering and allow them to start hitting some of the marks they have long desired, but kept failing to reach.