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    Gifted

    By Robert Jameson

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    This is a sort of guidebook for gifted students, designed to help you nurture your potential as an exceptionally intelligent and thoughtful person.

    From the introduction: "I didn't write this book in order to help people become 'moderately clever.' I wrote it for those people with the determination to develop the sort of exceptional super-intelligence that only a few people even know exists. Whilst many people might benefit from reading this book, it is primarily intended for that tiny proportion of the population who have the capacity to be amongst the outstanding thinkers of our age."

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRobert Jameson
    Release dateMay 23, 2012
    ISBN9781507077061
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      Gifted - Robert Jameson

      Warning/Disclaimer

      This book shouldn't offend anyone - but, with so many ridiculously over-sensitive people around these days, there's always a danger that it will. Please note, therefore, that you read this book at your own risk. Please also note that this book is intended to present ideas and opinions - not facts.

      Introduction

      This is a book for gifted students. It is, essentially, a sort of guidebook, designed to help you nurture your potential as an exceptionally intelligent and thoughtful person.

      In writing this book, I shall imagine that you are a gifted young person, probably between the ages of 14 and 18 and still in full-time education. If you don't fall into this category, however, don't worry - you may very well find this book interesting anyway.

      And don't worry about whether you have been officially identified as 'gifted' by your teachers at school. Not many schools employ teachers with sufficient expertise to be able to understand and consistently recognise the qualities that mark someone out as having the potential for genius. That's a job for an expert. Not all gifted students excel academically - and doing well academically doesn't necessarily mean you have the potential for genius - so identifying 'gifted' students is, in practice, a bit of a hit-and-miss affair.

      What I mean by 'gifted,' is simply that you have the potential to be exceptionally intelligent. And who has such potential? Almost anyone with the necessary willingness to learn.

      If you are a gifted student, this book is intended to help you in a number of ways. One of these is to suggest ideas that may help you to better understand the nature of intelligence. Another is to make suggestions as to how you can develop and nurture the advanced thinking skills you will need if you are to fulfil your potential.

      Being gifted has many advantages and unlocks incredible opportunities, but it also attracts its own peculiar problems and difficulties. A further purpose of this book, therefore, is to try to prepare you for some of the special opportunities and difficulties that you may face as a gifted person.

      This is a deliberately rather haphazard book. It is not very formally structured. Nevertheless, many of the keys to developing advanced thinking skills can be fairly easily found lurking within its pages - if, that is, you are genuinely keen on finding them.

      I ought to point out, at the outset, that I didn't write this book in order to help people become 'moderately clever.' I wrote it for those people with the determination to develop the sort of exceptional super-intelligence that only a few people even know exists. Whilst many people might benefit from reading this book, it is primarily intended for that tiny proportion of the population who have the capacity to be amongst the outstanding thinkers of our age.

      It is probably true that many people who read this book will fail to properly appreciate the lessons it contains. Nevertheless, the lessons are there for anyone who is sufficiently without arrogance to be able to learn them.

      Some of those who do grasp the lessons within this book, will still fail to appreciate their full significance. Many of these lessons may appear to be fairly simple and straightforward - perhaps even 'obvious.' In many ways, they are simple - but that doesn't mean they aren't important or that they aren't frequently overlooked.

      To make the most of this book, you'll need to have a little trust. I've spent my life studying the secrets of super-intelligence. I know what the secret ingredients are. Each one is important - but it takes a considerable investment of time and effort before they can be properly appreciated.

      This book only offers a beginning - a taster of what is to come. It merely gives a few directions to help you decide which areas you might explore further. If you ever - and few people will - fully discover the potential hinted at within this book, then that realisation will be a long time in development. In the meantime, you will, as I say, need a little trust. I hope that isn't asking too much!

      Attitudes

      Attitudes towards cleverness vary over time and go through stages and fashions.

      Not so very long ago, the cleverest students in a school would often have been referred to simply as, 'bright' and some of the least clever would have been referred to simply as 'slow' or even 'thick'! In later, more 'sensitive' times, this latter type of student might have been described in less specific terms as 'not-so-bright.' These days, they might be described as being 'less-able' and some of them as 'having special needs.'

      Currently, it is generally acceptable for the brightest and most capable students to be described as 'gifted.' Such a term, however, has only really come back into fashion in relatively recent years, as governments have come to accept the idea that top students should receive specialised assistance to help them 'reach their full potential.'

      It may well be, however, that the term, 'gifted' becomes unfashionable or even frowned upon in future. Some people already object to the term. They might argue that to 'label' one student as 'gifted' implies that other students are not gifted. They might say that all students (and all people) are gifted, just in different ways!

      Some people would object to anyone referring to any student as 'intelligent.' This, they believe, infers that other students are less intelligent. They see this as being derogatory. They like to believe, in line with their politically-correct viewpoint, that everyone is intelligent, 'just in different ways.' A student who does not show themselves to be especially 'intelligent' in the traditional, intellectual sense of the word, might be alternatively described as being, 'emotionally intelligent,' for example.

      Whatever the current fashion, however, it is a simple fact (as far as facts are ever simple) that some people and some students are cleverer than others and that some have greater - or, at least, more readily accessible - potential than others.

      Sometimes, clever people are celebrated, but often they are not. In many places and at many times over the centuries, intellectuals have been persecuted and even killed. When dictators and fascists have an idea, they generally don't like people disagreeing with them. Most of all, however, they tend to particularly hate the people who are intellectually capable of proving them wrong!

      Whilst intellectuals who live in modern western societies don't usually have to fear for their lives, it is still true that, in many ways, we live in peculiarly anti-intellectual times. If you go back to the 1970s, for example, you would find that intellectuals were often treated with far greater respect and far less suspicion than they are today.

      One of the reasons for many people's

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