Gifted self-esteem issues – John Lennon: “…something wrong with me, I thought”
“There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn’t see. I thought I was crazy or an egomaniac for claiming to see things other people didn’t see. As a child I would say, ‘but this is going on!’ and everybody would look at me as if I was crazy.”
John Lennon, Teaching Gifted Children, July/August 1981
From the quotes page on Gifted and Grown
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“I’m not going to change the way I look or the way I feel to conform to anything. I’ve always been a freak.. all my life and I have to live with that, you know…. Part of me suspects that I’m a loser, and the other part of me thinks I’m God Almighty…
“You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.” [from brainyquote.com]
photo from bio: Lennon Revealed – by Larry Kane
> more quotes by John Lennon on blog post: Talented & insecure
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