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 …
Why I Stopped Writing About Bruce Lee
Gifted and Talented Gets the “Glee” Treatment in Short Film
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 …
Big Bang Theory’s Sheldon Cooper – Big Fish in a Little Pond?
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 …
2ndLifeTech Named Winner of the 2104 USA Creative Business Cup
The National Creativity Network (NCN) is pleased to announce the winner of the 2014 USA Creative Business Cup. The Creative Business Cup (www.creativebusinesscup.com) is an annual competition that culminates with the world finals in Copenhagen, Denmark on November 17-19, 2014 Read More …
Early Life Stress Can Leave Lasting Impacts on the Brain
For children, stress can go a long way. A little bit provides a platform for learning, adapting and coping. But a lot of it – chronic, toxic stress like poverty, neglect and physical abuse – can have lasting negative impacts. Read More …
Bright Kids NYC’s Gifted and Talented Scholarship Celebrates a Year of Success
How do you support the needs of exceptional students across the largest city in US? The Gifted and Talented programs are one way the NYC Department of Education aims to do so. Each year families gear up for these assessments Read More …
Creatively Gifted Young Adults with Autism Find Opportunities Through Exceptional Minds Vocational School
A year ago, autism was all about spotting the signs and early intervention. Today, autism has reached a new level of awareness as people and companies discover untapped potential in this growing, underutilized population. Nowhere is this more evident than at Exceptional Read More …
Emptying Your Cup: A Zen Parable for Academics and Professors
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
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 …
Talk on Counseling and the Gifted this Thursday at Frisco, TX Symposium
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 …