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  • Hardcover: 292 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (12 April 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0471295809
  • ISBN-13: 978-0471295808
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 15.5 x 2.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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"I enjoyed reading this book. It is highly informative and interesting."––Alice Miller, author of Drama of the Gifted Child

"Many readers will recognize their own experiences..."––Lita Linzer Schwartz, Ph.D., ABPP, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Pennsylvania State University

"This book was a delight. It affirmed my own experiences and observations. The author makes her study come alive...through the voices of real people talking about their experiences.... I highly recommend this book."––Joanne Rand Whitmore, Ph.D., Professor and Dean, College and Graduate School of Education, Kent State University


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"Many readers will recognize their own experiences..."--Lita Linzer Schwartz, Ph.D., ABPP, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Pennsylvania State University
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5.0 out of 5 stars Finally someone who understands!, 3 Sep 1999
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I read this book with a sense of wonder and relief. Finally, someone who understands that the attainment of knowledge is more fulfilling than the writing of a paper or the answering a test to prove knowledge of a subject. My favorite quote was the guy who said I have the attention span of about 2 years for a new subject before I want to move on to something new. It's hard to make others understand this feeling of always wanting to learn something new just for the pleasure of expanding my horizons, without making myself feel flighty or weird. Thanks for a great book. I'm saving this for my daughter for when she comes to me and wonders why she is different from the other kids.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Revealing and Insightful, 14 Jul 1999
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Her insight into gifted adults as people who need to learn more and faster, always needing new projects to avert boredom, and verbalizing creative, off-the-wall mental leaps that no one gets describes my experience accurately. I thought there was something wrong with me! I like her style, very straightforward, using her subject's stories in ways that move the text along rather than bog it down. No hint of pop psychology here thank goodness. I'm sending this book to a friend in Alaska who, like me, struggles with being different. I know she will find it interesting--it helps to define and clarify our sense that we are extraordinary in some way.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Right on the money, 22 May 1999
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The author captures what life feels like to a gifted grownup so accurately, I was moved to tears reading the book. I'm sure everyone hates to be misunderstood, but it happens to gifted people a lot, and it is wonderful to read such a clear description from someone who truly understands. Give it to a gifted person you know!
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