Welcome to Everyday Intensity!
- Do you want to know how to live with more intensity?
- Are you interested in finding and sharing resources that pertain to intense learners (children and adults), giftedness, creativity, and personal growth?
- Are you looking for ways to learn about and discuss giftedness that move away from the gifted label?
This blog grew from my interest and work in giftedness and gifted education. While there are many ways to understand giftedness, I find the intensity of giftedness to be the most interesting and useful. After all, if just being smart is all there is to being gifted, then what is the problem? Gifted people would simply learn faster or more deeply than others and would still fit in smoothly with the rest of the world and understand themselves. Right?
Wrong. We know that being intellectually smart isn’t all there is to being gifted. It’s the other “stuff”—the intensities, high levels of sensitivity, and personal drive—that can sometimes cause problems and are important to understand. These same intensities are often one’s greatest strengths. They not only affect how life is experienced, but also contain within them the potential for advanced development and a fulfilling life.
If you are new to the idea of giftedness as intensity, here are some posts to get you started.
- Being Too Much: The Upside of Being and Outsider
- Busy vs. Intensity
- Collapsed Intensity
- Examples of Everyday Intensity
- Intensity as Self-Determination
- Introverts, Intensity, and Phone Avoidance
- Is Your Intensity Out of Control?
- Meeting the Needs of Intense Grown-ups
- On Happiness and Intensity
- Perfectionism and Intensity
- Seeing Intensity in Others
Please feel free to browse around and comment! For more information about individual posts, please see the Topic Index. For author bio information, please go here.
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Lisa, I have been reading about your family journal that you are writing about. It is interesting to me that there seems to be so many people in the early days of the country that kept journals as we do now of our daily lives and happenings. I did not ever think that it was as common for “everyday women”..I’ve come to writing late in life and find there are so many things for me to learn about that never passed my thoughts for almost seventy years.
Thanks for all the information you share and know that it is read with interest and shared with others…
Peace and love,
Siggi
on the coast of Maine, near Bar Harbor
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