Comments on: Gifted and Lazy

By: Francisco

Francisco — Sun, 11 Oct 2009 02:06:51 +0000

There´s no such thing as lazyness, specially in gifted people. It´s real name: DEPRESSION.

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:54:00 +0000

Oops hit send before I was done.

At any rate, thanks for this blog post.

By: Casey

Casey — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 04:52:08 +0000

I disagree with the idea if you don’ t make ‘em work, they won’t. That’s really hard to swallow as an absolute when I’ve known a few brilliant people I’ve worked with that happily throw themselves into their work because they love what they do. I’ve also had great work ethic in my field (biotechnology). I loved what I did for work, and I went above and beyond at times to make sure things got done extremely well. I took things upon myself to improve the way things were done because it made things run more efficiently.

I wanted to tell the op that I appreciate the perspective. I have been looking for quite some time on sound advice to give young gifted children given the fact I have at least 2, and maybe 3 young gifted girls.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 03:20:12 +0000

Everyone’s lazy. Smart people, dumb people. Doesn’t matter. If you don’t make ‘em work, they won’t. Period. That includes thinking, too. If all you have smart people do is read and regurgitate a bunch of book learning to get an A, that’s all they’ll do and think they know everything. (This is what’ observed in “Why I Never Hire Brilliant Men” of college men: “If I selected good students, I found too often that their leadership had been won by doing very well what their teachers had laid out for them. They had developed a fine capacity for taking orders, but not much initiative.” Today, we call this “Critical Thinking”(TM) with it’s predetermined “root causes” laid out by the professor, etc.) Gifted students (both children and adults) must be made to think– having to accomplish some results gets the brilliance out of their heads and into something productive quite well– or they won’t.