Getting perspective of what it means to be gifted: Meet Cliff Wigtil

Gifted Unleashed

Cliff Wigtil has been in giftedness circles for over twenty years, and has been formally studying giftedness for well over a decade. He provides coaching services and welcome clients from a diversity of backgrounds.

TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• If you have such a profound perspective, you also need to have some kind of perspective on limitations
• Highly gifted people do sometimes become eminent but it may also come at high costs. It requires great sacrifice and help, as well as being at the right place at the right time
• Yes, you can succeed, but it's also okay to just be you.
• People are overestimating how much intelligence contributes to the ultimate outcomes in life
• What does it takes to be successful? You need intelligence, sure. But it really depends on what field you're going into, a lot of who you know, a lot of being able to overcome things that would just be devastating to almost anybody.
• If you are gifted in this world, you might not not even know how much different and how much different your perspective is! How much more insightful you are, how much more you can see and how much more you can articulate for example.
• What you're going through is it may not be typical, but it is normal because it's normal to you.
• If you think you might need therapy. Get therapy it's okay - try to find somebody who can match you for what you're going through
• Don’t over-learn from one single experience

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Cliff’s website yourlightbridge.com and Twitter @cliffwigtil

Two of Cliff’s research papers and profile on ResearchGate:

Children Above 180 IQ Stanford-Binet: A Seventy-Five Year Follow-Up

The Relationship Between Intelligence and Psychological Well-Being in Incoming College Students

Leta Stetter Hollingworth and Lewis Terman

Linda Silverman

Mensa International

InterGifted and Founding Director Jennifer Harvey Sallin

International Society for Philosophical Enquiry: thethousand.com

Would you like to work with me 1:1 as your gifted and 2e coach? Please send me an email at [e-mail] or find more information about my coaching offer on my website giftedunleashed.com/coaching

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