They have trouble maintaining a reasonable level of productivity, especially when they are in entry-level jobs in the workplace. They soon begin to experience boredom that eventually can lead to bore-out. When gifted adults enter the workplace, either for the first time or when changing jobs, they are often confronted with material they already know and a pace that’s too slow for them. Gather data that demonstrates your abilities and provides documentation of your past experience (including both paid and volunteer work) present this information when appropriate. Look for small targets, things you can succeed in.Ĭollect a file of your successes, perhaps making them into a scrapbook. Look for inspiration: inspiring people, role models, inspiring situations, inspiring quotations. Keep a regular journal to help you sort out your thoughts and feelings about yourself and your life. Monitor and assess your own personal responses to different situations take time to adapt. Once she was involved in other activities, she found that she hardly ever slipped into these old eating habits. In the past when she was really hungry for more to think about and to do that would be interesting to her, she tended to head to the kitchen for something to eat and especially was inclined to binge on sweets. Her overweight was related to her low self-esteem but may have also been connected with being bored. She soon started to feel much better, mentally and physically and even lost a lot of weight.
#Problems of being gifted book series
Also she organized a “fair” about death and dying (with shops and professionals) and a series of lectures that were interesting for other elder people like her. For instance she started organizing a welcome group and a reading group in the building where she lives. Now she knows that she may be gifted, too, and that has been a revelation that has led her to creating several different activities for herself and others like her. It took some time, along with talking with one of the authors (NN), to accept herself as she is. However, two of her grandchildren are gifted, and when she was almost 70 she started to think about herself as possibly being gifted because of their stories. This older gifted woman never knew she was gifted. When she talked about her problems to her psychologist, she realized that the symptoms of bore-out applied very much to her situation.
When she realized that she needed help for her psychological problems, and she got a referral to a psychologist. Yolanda had already learned about her giftedness. She also found that experiences from her childhood started to haunt her. She started to experience physical and mental complaints. She was not very happy with that, but her repeated requests for more and more challenging or complicated assignments did not result in any improvement. She also started doing volunteer work for others in her community during her working hours. Yolanda then did some volunteer work at her company-organizing the parties at work, etc. When she asked for more, her supervisor said that it was not possible, because the work is done in sequential order and she was disrupting the progress because of her speed. She did her work well, but after about two years she found that she often did not have enough work to do. She worked for a large company, and she was part of a team. Yolanda is a 41 year old IT specialist in Information Technology (I.T.).
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