Profoundly gifted people may have several unique abilities, including apophenia (making connections between unrelated ideas), accurately reading microexpressions to understand others, enjoying solitary thinking in a constructive way where others experience anxiety, experiencing emotions more extremely than others, recognizing when they have original thoughts versus referencing existing knowledge, having different value systems and views of currency, investigating issues to find the most likely truth backed by evidence rather than intuition, and potentially predicting complex futures accurately through big picture thinking.
Profoundly gifted people may have several unique abilities, including apophenia (making connections between unrelated ideas), accurately reading microexpressions to understand others, enjoying solitary thinking in a constructive way where others experience anxiety, experiencing emotions more extremely than others, recognizing when they have original thoughts versus referencing existing knowledge, having different value systems and views of currency, investigating issues to find the most likely truth backed by evidence rather than intuition, and potentially predicting complex futures accurately through big picture thinking.
Profoundly gifted people may have several unique abilities, including apophenia (making connections between unrelated ideas), accurately reading microexpressions to understand others, enjoying solitary thinking in a constructive way where others experience anxiety, experiencing emotions more extremely than others, recognizing when they have original thoughts versus referencing existing knowledge, having different value systems and views of currency, investigating issues to find the most likely truth backed by evidence rather than intuition, and potentially predicting complex futures accurately through big picture thinking.
Apophenia: being able to make connections and see parallels between
seemingly unrelated phenomena. This may play out to be entirely useless and time consuming to the point of compulsion/obsession or become a million dollar idea. I’ll let you decide which is the more common occurrence. Disclaimer - I’m not entirely sure of this concept This is on a spectrum because I believe a lot of people think they are above average at this. Being able to read others. Gifted people can automatically categorize and sort ones micro expressions, totality of voice, inflections, mannerisms, idiosyncrasies, word selection, people’s posture, their clothing. This is not something that needs to be thought about. As I mention this is done automatically. Scanning for inconsistencies to reveal truths about another individual. While others can improve these skills. I believe this may be an advanced primitive survival tactic that is innate and not learned for gifted people. I often see the buzzword topic of overthinking littered across the internet. While average people get caught in self-sabotaging thought loops - they perceive them as seemingly inescapable - they have little to no control over their minds. I believe gifted people can blissfully enjoy solitude thinking about abstract thoughts in a constructive manner. Thinking about your thoughts can render a sense of accomplishment for gifted people. While average people experience anxiety and discomfort. Gifted people experience quality of life on the extreme ends of the spectrum. When they are up, they are on cloud nine; when they are down, it’s all doom and gloom. I know a lot of people think they can relate to this - but the experience for gifted people is unfathomably more extreme on the integer scale. Gifted people have the ability to recognize when they are having “original” thoughts, otherwise they reference where they have acquired their information. Average people think their thoughts are uniquely their own. This explains the frustration gifted people experience during interpersonal relationships with average people. They have different value systems for different reasons. They have different outlooks on currencies. The topic of currency transcends money with literal monetary value. Gifted people experience being rich in different ways. Gifted people are often unable to take things at face value, their minds automatically go into investigative mode in order to reveal the “best / highest likelihood truth”. This is done quantitatively backed up with empirical evidence rather than “it feels right or sounds right to me”. Big picture. Some Gifted people may be able to extrapolate information to accurately predict the future on very intricate and complex topics (with some margin of error of course). highest likelihood truth”. This is done quantitatively backed up with empirical evidence rather than “it feels right or sounds right to me”.
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