Comments on: Communicating in Gifted Adult

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 18:27:20 +0000

Being military, that the non-thinking and/or less intelligent ones tend to get killed more often with a war on (i.e., the “Darwin Award”) contributes here. Other fields with more forgiving work environments may vary. That it’s not that way in education in some manner, even if only metaphorically, is still said.

By: Curious

Curious — Sun, 27 Dec 2009 10:22:00 +0000

Thanks for the tip, anonymous. Sadly, the older folks where I spend most of my time don’t seem to be the “enlightened” ones. What makes the situation even more sad is that I work in education.

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Where to Find Other Gifted Adults | gifteduniverse.com — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 03:20:50 +0000

[...] mean you would want to talk to them or that you have anything in common. I wrote an earlier post, Communicating in Gifted Adult, where I suggested that gifted people have a natural way of communicating that most people [...]

By: Matthew

Matthew — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 01:42:59 +0000

Sorry, folks, that was me above.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:46:15 +0000

Well, I usually talk shop with the older and/or smarter folk where I am. Being a visual-spatial or “picture” thinker and about as “intellectual” as a cement block normally, it’s actually pretty easy in the service– most combatant or other such “operator” folk are of a similar mindset and the older/successful ones at it tend to be sharper than most. (Just talk outcome and how/how-not to achieve it, no problem; most intellectual folk get too hung up on “minutiae” and nuance that don’t matter to those things, regardless of intelligence.) There are more gifted people in the military than many, including Gifted experts, would expect.

By: Curious

Curious — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 05:38:45 +0000

So true! But where do you go if you want to relax with your own kind and speak your “native tongue” for a while without having to join MENSA?

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:49:55 +0000

The higher rate of thought drives a higher rate of transmission in communication. Communicate more/faster than a non-gifted person can receive and you’re just making noise to them. Ever say something to a person and they give you a blank stare? The next guy, Joe, says exactly the same thing you did and the first person goes “Joe’s got it!” You say “Hey, that’s what I just said!” and get a blank, confused stare back from both Joe and the first guy. Congratulations, you’ve just experienced this! (Caution: Sternly and slowly restating what you told the first guy and pointing out they’ve been rude to you as a person in front of other people will likely get you punched out of a simple confused fear response– they simply won’t understand what they did and will get defensively angry not knowing what else to do.) However, if someone doesn’t understand what you’ve said after you’ve explained it a couple of times and even the foreign students in the back row who speak English as a second language think you’ve got a good point then he’s probably just playing stupid so he doesn’t have to answer your question.