Exploring Passion, Creativity, and Intelligence
This January 15th is “Thank Your Mentor Day,” a part of National Mentoring Month. National Mentoring Month was started in 2002 by the Harvard School of Public Health and MENTOR: The National Mentoring Partnership. According to the National Mentoring Month website, Read More …
For those who are unfamiliar with my work on the subject of Bruce Lee, I wrote a number of articles and two books on Bruce Lee in the late 1990s and early 2000s. In April of 2000, I took the Read More …
A Gifted and Talented class is the setting for this entertaining short film. Note the elements of asynchrony, introversion, and social anxiety. From IMDB’s synopsis: “Now in his second year at CTC, Wyatt has returned to the charmingly awkward accelerated summer program Read More …
In the CBS television series The Big Bang Theory, gifted physicist Sheldon Cooper is the center of a social group composed mainly of academics and intellectuals. This social circle includes his roommate and experimental physicist Leonard Hofstadter, aerospace engineer Howard Read More …
A favorite parable of mine is a traditional Zen koan first translated into English by Nyogen Senzaki, a Rinzai Zen monk, in his 1919 book 101 Zen Stories. The koan is a cautionary parable about personal arrogance and the unwillingness to Read More …
My dad was always a proud and independent man, so it was extremely difficult for him to adjust to the debilitating paralysis that resulted after brain surgery in 1992. The paralysis affected his hands, making some of the simplest tasks extremely Read More …
I’ll be giving a talk this Thursday, April 10th, at the University of North Texas Gifted Symposium, sponsored by the Frisco Gifted Association. In my talk I will discuss the unique challenges gifted children face when seeking counseling services, including the Read More …
A good friend of mine brought this video to my attention, and I wanted to share it with you. This is a young man by the name of Jason C. Kertson, a talented musician who recently competed on NBC’s The Read More …
Fifty years ago today, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the noted civil rights champion of the United States, stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. and addressed a crowd of 250,000 civil rights supporters. At the Read More …
Martin Manley, a sports statistician and member of the “Triple Nine Society” whose IQ ranked him in the 99.9th percentile, committed suicide August 15, 2013 on what was his 60th birthday. His suicide coincided with the release of a complex Read More …