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]]> Stimulating Exceptional Abilities: Pumping Our Teeming Brain http://highability.org/107/pumping-our-teeming-brain/comment-page-1/#comment-37 Ellen Tue, 28 Oct 2008 02:05:15 +0000 http://highability.org/?p=107#comment-37 <i>"One of the questions in a giftedness self-test from the Gifted Development Center is “Do you often connect seemingly unrelated ideas?” </i> I do, but I have always tended to find this a hindrance to problem-solving as much as a help... to the point where I often remind myself that my connections will be wrong 50% of the time. (I don't know if that's the actual percentage but seems like a nice round number!) I sometimes feel like this is a misfiring in my brain or something. Many times the connected ideas don't seem to be useful, or I can't get others to understand them, so I let a lot of them go. “One of the questions in a giftedness self-test from the Gifted Development Center is “Do you often connect seemingly unrelated ideas?”

I do, but I have always tended to find this a hindrance to problem-solving as much as a help… to the point where I often remind myself that my connections will be wrong 50% of the time. (I don’t know if that’s the actual percentage but seems like a nice round number!) I sometimes feel like this is a misfiring in my brain or something. Many times the connected ideas don’t seem to be useful, or I can’t get others to understand them, so I let a lot of them go.

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