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How Giftedness Becomes a Performance of Worth

I realized I only feel valuable when I am solving other people's problems or demonstrating my intelligence and I do not know how to just exist without performing my giftedness.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Intellectual ability has become the sole source of self-worth and relational value.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Gifted education and its discontents?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.