What is it like to be smarter than 95% of the people you meet?Fifty-four-year-old Alison says, "They told me I was smart and Icried.
Streznewski resides in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, where she is at work on her second novel..
She has taught Gifted teenagers for 20 years, and worked with college students and senior citizens.
Paul Torrance, Georgia Studies of Creative Behavior, author of Gifted and Talented Children in the Regular Classroom.
ISBN 0-471-29580-9 About the Author: MARYLOU Kelly STREZNEWSKI, MEd, is certified as a Program Specialist in Gifted Education and is a poet and fiction writer.
This book would be ofinterest, not only to Gifted education professionals, but also toparents, teachers in general, and to Gifted individuals of allages.--E. "Gifted Grownups meets a long-awaited need.
Reis, Professorof Educational Psychology, The University of Connecticut.
Sally M. has taken us one step further in ourunderstanding of how and why some talented individuals realizetheir potential while others do not."--Dr. . . "This thoughtful book .
Ihighly recommend this book.i--Joanne Rand Whitmore, PhD, Professorand Dean College and Graduate School of Education, Kent StateUniversity "Many readers will recognize their own experiences.--Lita LinzerSchwartz, PhD, ABPP Distinguished Professor Emerita, PennsylvaniaState University. . . . throughthe voices of real people talking about their experiences. . .
The author makes her study come alive .
It affirmed my own experiences andobservations.
Here for the first time and in their own words, 100Gifted grownups, from ages 18 to 90, and a variety of family andeducational backgrounds, occupations, social classes, and races, count the Blessings and tally the costs of a high-powered mind."Highly informative and interesting."--Alice Miller, author of TheDrama of the Gifted Child "This book was a delight.
Doing for Gifted grownups what the bestselling Drivento Distraction did for adults with attention deficit, GiftedGrownups traces many types of Gifted adults, including thehigh-testing, power-achieving Striver; the popular scholar orathlete Superstar; and the creative intellectual, free-spiritIndependent.
These gifts affect the waytalented adults react to their friends, families, jobs, and lifechallenges.
Heightened perception, sensitivity, humor, and the ability to put complex ideas togetherquickly are also aspects of giftedness.
Recently "giftedness"has been redefined to include qualities like extraordinarycreative, leadership, or physical skills.
Traditionally, the Gifted were measured in terms of intelligenceonly, and anyone with an IQ score higher than 130 was automaticallygrouped in with that misunderstood minority.
Why do some talented and giftedpeople become Mozarts and Einsteins or corporate chieftains, whileothers drop out of school, struggle to hold down jobs, or turn toself-destructive behavior? What are the signs of giftedness, itspitfalls, and its promise? Marylou Streznewski provides answers tothese and other questions, and creates an intriguing picture ofwhat it is like to have an accelerated mind in a slow-movingworld.
I wanted to be sexy, or glamorous " Jean, 38, laments, "Ilearned the whole job in six weeks, and now I\'m bored." Gifted Grownups, Marylou Kelly Streznewski\'s unprecedented, 10-yearstudy of 100 Gifted adults, examines how being identified as a"smart kid" early on affects career choices, friendships, andromantic pairings later in life.
What is it like to be smarter than 95% of the people you meet?Fifty-four-year-old Alison says, "They told me I was smart and Icried
