2007 June | High Ability

Entries from June 2007

EQ and/or IQ

“Academic intelligence has little to do with emotional life…
people with high IQs can be stunningly poor pilots of their private lives.”Daniel Goleman in his book Emotional Intelligence.
In her article Emotional Intelligence of the Gifted, Joanna Fletcher notes that Goleman gives examples of high IQ people “who are not achieving the heights they were destined for.”
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Some thought I had rare insight, others thought I was crazy.

That sort of reaction [in the title] is not so unusual for exceptional, gifted and talented children and adults.
“I got that whole precocious thing [as a child]. I had no reason to doubt my own abilities or not share my opinion. The adults were offended, and the kids were resentful. I was persona non grata [...]