http://gifteduniverse.com/characteristics-gifted-adult/realistic-gifted-adult/ Gifted Adults Wed, 09 Jun 2010 06:29:38 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.3 hourly 1 http://gifteduniverse.com/characteristics-gifted-adult/realistic-gifted-adult/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Matthew Sat, 05 Sep 2009 02:46:10 +0000 http://gifteduniverse.com/?p=344#comment-99 Feasibility, yes, is good thing. (Not considering it can be bad when out trying to do things.) But, when someone else tells you to "be realistic" about what you want to do or be (especially when other folk get told to reach for the stars) it's being told to be seen and not heard, get back in the kitchen, go to the back of the bus or some other put-down disguised as genteel advice. If everyone listened to what "can't be done," we'd never have gotten out of the caves. Feasibility, yes, is good thing. (Not considering it can be bad when out trying to do things.) But, when someone else tells you to “be realistic” about what you want to do or be (especially when other folk get told to reach for the stars) it’s being told to be seen and not heard, get back in the kitchen, go to the back of the bus or some other put-down disguised as genteel advice. If everyone listened to what “can’t be done,” we’d never have gotten out of the caves.

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