Coaching & therapy for the highly gifted

It can be a great advantage if you are more gifted, talented & intelligent than most people. Besides excelling in your specific talent, your general ability to distinguish is also greater, you have a faster & deeper comprehension & a greater insightful ability. This allows you to better master complex material in depth and you see more & more connections, mistakes, problems & possibilities sooner.

It can be very fun & interesting to be gifted, because you see & understand more and you have many more possibilities. If you are gifted or highly intelligent, for example, you study easily and you can function at a higher level, which allows you to do more interesting work, which generally also pays better etc. But besides a lot of those kinds of advantages, giftedness also has its disadvantages & pitfalls.

Hidden talents

It is often quite clear that you are more gifted, talented and/or intelligent than the people around you, but that is certainly not always the case. For example, if you are dyslexic or have test anxiety, you can score poorly on tests, which can cause you to end up at too low a level in terms of education & work. This means that there is a good chance that you will be confronted even more with the disadvantages & pitfalls of your giftedness, without realizing that your problems are related to your higher giftedness - which can make it extra confusing.

Because giftedness has a number of disadvantages & pitfalls that you can learn to deal with better, because otherwise your giftedness can cause a lot of misery. You have a somehow different kind of brain than most people, which can make it for example difficult to feel at home among people, because you may have different interests or you're further in your development because of which you miss connection. Or you may rarely meet people who understand you or think or function at a similar level - and that can be lonely.

Intelligent pitfalls

You can fall into pitfalls that arise from your giftedness, but that are not easily or automatically resolved by it. One such pitfall is, for example, that you quickly become bored & depressed if you do the same things for too long. Or that you quickly become irritated if other people do not understand something right away or say & do stupid things. Another pitfall is that you get too caught up in your thoughts & see your ideas about the world, people & life as the real world, people & life - while that really is a world of difference.

If you are highly gifted, you are more likely to live too much in your head or to be too monomaniacal. You can completely forget to experience life directly & enjoy the moment - or you can even completely forget how to do that or consider it irrelevant. Or you can try to understand so much that your brain becomes overloaded and you get bogged down in brooding & ruminating. Or you start to see reality as a relative, abstract subjective phenomenon, which can be very confusing when nothing is something anymore - or something is nothing.

Or you can start to see & study yourself & other people as subjects and apply a kind of vivisection to human feelings, motivations & behavior, leaving little of it - and taking the ground from under your own feet. Or you can see, feel & understand all the problems in the world - and think you have to solve them. And there are more pitfalls that gifted people often fall into & are not so easy to get out of - no matter how smart they are.

Intelligent solutions

So it is very useful to learn how to deal with giftedness & great intelligence, because otherwise it can take a long time & cause you quite a bit of trouble, before you understand the instructions yourself & find the solutions. And that is not so smart, because there are other people who have already figured it out & found intelligent solutions. So no theoretical, but practical effective ways to deal with the disadvantages & pitfalls of giftedness - really intelligent solutions.

Therapy & coaching for gifted people helps you to get a clear picture of the instructions and to learn to recognize & overcome the disadvantages & pitfalls. You are helped to deal with the talents & qualities themselves and with a world full of less gifted people - real life, so to speak. You get tools to tackle the patterns that are inherent to your talent & specific personality structure and effective tools with which you get a grip on yourself, your talent & the difficult aspects of it.

This will allow you to increasingly reap the benefits of your giftedness and make its positive aspects increasingly available to you. Because when you become a bit wiser, it becomes a lot of fun to be gifted & to use your great powers of comprehension, discrimination & insight. It makes the chance a lot bigger that you can function at a high level & do the work that you find interesting & that suits your qualities & that makes you feel happy.

Centrumpraktijk Haarlem
Email: info@centrumpraktijk.nl
Phone: +31 616 44 43 44

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