Established in 1982, this international society brings together highly gifted individuals from the top 1 in 30,000 people and offers online discussions, newsletters, and online tools to connect these profoundly gifted people.
Advancing Hispanics/Chicanos & Native Americans in Science (SACNAS) is a society of scientists dedicated to fostering the success of Hispanic/Chicano and Native American scientists—from college students to professionals—in attaining advanced degrees, careers, and positions of leadership. With a 36-year history, SACNAS is comprised of over 20,000 members, partners, and affiliates from a diversity of disciplines, institutions, ethnic backgrounds, and levels along the educational trajectory. SACNAS members are dedicated to giving back through mentorship, peer networks, and professional development, and to engaging in science research and leadership of the highest caliber.
This book by String Letter Publishing offers a rare glimpse into the world of the classical violin soloist, whether they're child prodigies just coming onto the stage or cultural icons whose careers have had a lasting influence on generations of players. In this collection of in-depth interviews, today's leading violinists discuss making music on one of the world's most beloved instruments. How they practice, how they work with other musicians, their performance secrets and anxieties, and what moves and inspires them.
Careers for Geniuses and Other Gifted Types lets career explorers look at the job market through the unique lens of their own interests. The book reveals dozens of ways to pursue a passion and make a living--including many little-known but delightful careers that will surprise readers.
Covering such personalities as Aretha Franklin, Pablo Picasso and Frank Lloyd Wright, authors Goertzel and Hansen remember their incredible contributions to our world. We wonder whether today's world will nurture and support the emergence of great potential to the same extent as previous decades.
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In this book, author Lee Cullum explores the 20th century with its spirit of relentless innovation. She discovered that the 20th century, even with its power to appall, has been animated by creative wonder. Freud, Franklin Rossevelt, Picasso, Virginia Woolf, Gershwin, and Charlie Chaplin all brought forth new worlds and shaped them by the light of their own genius.
Dean Keith Simonton examines uncommon people: those creators and leaders whose impact on their own and later times has been so great that they deserve the label "genius." A simultaneous look at creativity and leadership is itself uncommon, and the comparison shows that when creators and leaders act at genius levels they have many similarities. What it is that causes them to stand out above others? Simonton believes that if we subject the lives of the eminent to scientific analysis we may be able to discover general laws of history and social behavior. To do this he defines a discipline called historiometry.
The authors explore the lives of those who have grown up gifted. It summarizes a study administered to access the outcomes of early identification and schooling among a group of highly gifted students. There is information on the realities of schools, the expectations of others, and the choices that the gifted make as adults. The authors propose that reported reflections of these now older subjects can help in the gifted development of future students.
Debunking the myth that intellectually gifted people are either impractical social misfits or perfect specimens, author Marylou Streznewski, a specialist in gifted education, presents a study of 100 people ages 18 to 90. After defining giftedness, Streznewski examines old and new research on the nature of intelligence and other gifts and explores ways gifted people hide their talents. Other topics include special challenges within families, at school, as young adults, and in seeking challenging work; the plight of gifted dropouts and criminals; and how giftedness affects relationships, etc.
In this book, Dean Keith Simonton examines a range of important personalities and events that have influenced the course of history. He discusses how people who go down in history might be different from the rest of us, and explores which personality traits predispose certain people to become world leaders, movie stars, scientific geniuses, and star athletes. In exploring the psychology of greatness, this fascinating work also sheds light on the characteristics that any of us may share with history-making people.
Alissa Quart shows how a gifted childhood that is "relentlessly tested, totally overscheduled and joylessly competitive" is being created by some parents and concludes that "enrichment" not only doesn't necessarily work, it may be harmful.
More than a collection of conversations, this is an investigation of creativity - an investigation conducted by the investigated. Here, men around whom we structure the word "genius" itself, men whose minds have helped shape the genius of this century, men like Picasso, Cocteau, Chagall, Dali, and Marceau, reveal and define the genius that moves them.
This book provides a vivid picture of the challenges talented young people must navigate in translating academic ability and achievement into successful adult careers and lives.
From Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill to Winston Churchill, a distinguished historian tells the life stories, delving deeply into the psychological background as well as the accomplishments, of eight men and one woman whose ideas and actions epitomize the essential development of British political and social life for the past 150 years.
What makes an Einstein happen? How is it that some kids grow up to be Nobel laureates while others, seemingly their equals, go on to undistinguished careers? Dr. Dean Simonton, professor of psychology at the University of California at Davis, has striven to understand this phenomenon for years and has compiled his insights and research in this book.
Author Gene Landrum looks at the common characteristics linking the diverse careers of highly creative women and concludes that "female creative genius is synonymous with a strong self-esteem and self-confidence coupled with a right-brain-driven intuitive spirit and a manic energy to succeed." The lives and careers profiled in this book include Mary Kay Ash, Jane Fonda, and Oprah Winfrey.
Author Gene Landrum wrote this book about 13 iconoclastic individuals who have demonstrated a unique ability to deal with change in the world and redefine it for their own purposes. Landrum calls these individuals the “change masters,” entrepreneurial geniuses whose innovations have had a profound influence on modern society. Each of these giants was motivated by what Landrum describes as an “inno-visionary personality,” which drove them to follow a unique inner vision of success and gave them an inviolable belief in themselves.
In George Johnson's biography of Nobel Prize-winner Murray Gell-Mann, we see Gell-Mann as a child prodigy; Gell-Mann entering Yale at 15; Gell-Mann the world traveler and master of particle physics.
Jane Piirto designed this book to cover both the characteristics of gifted students and to present important information on how to teach them. It contains the latest results of federal research projects, suggestions for inclusion, and definitions of who is gifted and talented.
Renowned developmental psychologists and experts in gifted education come together to explore giftedness from early childhood through the elder years. Focusing on the practical implications of emerging theoretical perspectives and empirical findings, contributors examine prediction and measurement, diversity issues, and psychosocial factors as they relate to developing talent in different domains.
It could be argued that the 20th century was the century of theoretical physics. The Genius of Science is a portrait gallery of 16 of the most interesting international physicists who helped change our view of the world--from Niels Bohr to Eugene Wigner. Author Abraham Pais, an eminent American theoretical physicist and professor at Rockefeller University, has written acclaimed biographies of Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr, two of the greatest scientists of the 20th century. Pais was acquainted with many of the people he writes about.
Are you relentlessly curious and creative, always willing to rock the boat in order to get things done; extremely energetic and focused, yet constantly switching gears; intensely sensitive, able to intuit subtly charged situations and decipher others' feelings? If these traits sound familiar, then you may be an Everyday Genius, someone who shares qualities with figures as diverse as Bill Gates and Mother Teresa. These are people who break the mold and change the world, who actualize their singular talents, who don't hesitate to "think different." Click here to read a review of this book.
In this book, author Robert Buderi chronicles the previously untold story of radar, one of the greatest scientific breakthroughs of the last century. He presents in-depth, completely accessible descriptions of the triumphs and technological advances and introduces the brilliant band of scientists, many of them Nobel Prize winners, who carried out this revolution.
In the capable hands of psychologists Karen Reivich and Andrew Shatté, resilience is not a Band-Aid or a buzzword. It is a habit of mind. The Resilience Factor is a practical roadmap for navigating unexpected challenges, surprises, and setbacks at work and home. Their premise--that your thinking style determines your resilience--underlies the books promise: you can boost resilience by changing the way you think about adversity. Click here to read a review of this book.
A fascinating record of human achievement, this collection is a one-stop source of detailed information on the men and women who earned the Nobel Prize during the 20th century.
In this searching look into the essence of creativity, 40 winners of the coveted MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, the so-called “genius award”, provide a glimpse inside their own experience of the creative process.
This book is a follow-up study of the world-famous high-IQ "Quiz Kids" of radio show fame from the 1940s radio show "The Quiz Kids." The author, a former Quiz Kid herself, tracked down many Quiz Kid cohorts and administered a questionnaire, then chose a selection of the Quiz Kids to interview in-depth.
Pletsch offers the reader the fruits of his long and creative journey into Nietzshe's world of ideas and humanity, which have broad implications for intellectual history, human development and creativity.
In a society that largely considers gifted adults to be those who have achieved some significance in their field, and which focuses almost all of its attention (when it pays any at all) on gifted children, it is challenging to think about gifted adults in other ways.
Hosted on the Talent Development Resources website, this article by Sharon Lind, discusses the difficulties an adult may go through in identifying themselves as gifted. Some adults realize that while teaching, guiding, and/or parenting their gifted children, they see similar traits in themselves. Lind focuses on
five key affective needs of gifted adults: acknowledging your own gifts; nurturing your identity development; giving yourself permission to be a growing, changing, imperfect person; taking advantage of and coping with over excitabilities; and learning practical coping skills.
This 18-page booklet is the first publication to consolidate and expand existing knowledge about highly capable women and the internal and external forces that lead them to extraordinary adult accomplishment. The collected studies include women from a wide variety of backgrounds and talent domains whose paths to exceptional achievement illuminate the nature of female talent development and provide models to help more women fulfill their promise in adulthood.
Albert Einstein Online has all you need to know about Albert Einstein, including: Einsten moments; physics; "In His Own Words"; and pictures.
This article brings attention to the fact that giftedness is found not only in children but also in adults. Gifted adults should achieve their high potential and realize their talents.
This piece, by Mary-Elaine Jacobsen, Ph.D. and posted on the Talent Development Resource's website, distinguishes the differences between the confusing signs of identifying an adult as gifted. Such confusing notions are asynchronous development, exceptionally high standards, extra-sensitivity and arousal, independence and perceptivity.
This site is an introduction to past and present Nobel Laureates with articles written by Laureates, biographies, autobiographical essays and photos and video footage. Fascinating information into the lives of these accomplished intellectuals.