A Shout-Out from Ryan Bledsoe!
At the end of a great episode on Orphism, I just got a shout-out from Ryan Bledsoe and the Gang on Bledsoe Said So for the astrology reading I gave him! Thanks, Ryan!
A Quick-Start Guide to Learning Astrology
I often get asked where to begin learning astrology. Here’s my quick guide to getting started in only a few months: Try to track down your birth certificate as soon as you can. This is to try to get your exact birth time. It can take a long time and it’s best to start early.Download…
Four Reasons Folks Don’t Want to Talk about Giftedness
There’s a lot of pushback I’ve often gotten from some acquaintances on the topic of giftedness. After talking with the person, the resistance seems to stem from values of egalitarianism (economic and educational), as well as assumptions about how fast and much children and adolescents develop in the various spheres of their lives. Educators in…
New: Services for Astrology and Angels!
Update: The introductory 2021 rates are over. Please visit the Services page for current rates. After 20 years of studying astrology, this fall I decided to take the next step and become a certified astrologer. On Monday, I got 95% on my NCGR-PAA Professional Certification Examination! With that, I would like to expand my services…
Multipotentiality
You might have heard that being gifted means you can “write your own ticket” (as I was told), or that you have a complicated, multiplex potential, also known as “multipotentiality.” Is this true? The answer is, well, complicated. The first validated intelligence tests were oriented towards predicting elementary school achievement across subjects. Furthermore, there are…
5 Ways to Cultivate the Gifted Mind
If you’re like me and like to both enjoy the moment and think ahead, you may have wondered about good techniques to develop your gifted mind. Below are some research-based techniques, some of which are good for everyone, but all of which are especially good for the gifted mind. Read, read, read. Research appears to…
The Temptation of the Gifted: Achievement
It’s important for people interested in intelligence to know that intelligence testing has its origins in predicting school achievement. It has since evolved into broader theoretical frameworks (especially CHC theory) which are more robust and predictive of a broader array of cognitive conditions. But let’s first talk intelligence, and then talk achievement. We know that…
The Limitations of Being Gifted
Being more perceptiveBeing more likely to reach correct conclusionsUnderstanding more of the words being used in the content you are exposed toDrawing connections across different areas of knowledge quicklyAbsorbing and integrating frameworks of knowledge quicklyCreating and testing new mental frameworks on the fly during ambiguous situations All of these are examples of what giftedness have…
Podcast Appearance!
I had the honor of being a guest on Nadja Cereghetti’s podcast, Unleash Monday! We talk about giftedness (of acourse!); the follow-up article on all 12 of Leta Hollingworth’s study of exceptionally gifted children that I co-authored with Will White; the journey of gifted development; setting expectations for success: and more! I hope you’ll give…
“Difference is a feature, not a bug”
Of all the things I’ve come to learn over my decades of gifted life, one thing that was difficult for me was to come to terms with the differentness. I wanted so badly to be known. As social creatures, this is a normal state for people. Yet I felt so different, and, in fact, I…
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