Posted by alexandra_k on September 14, 2013, at 23:33:24
In reply to Re: Social Skills, posted by alexandra_k on September 14, 2013, at 23:15:05
and of course 'intelligence' is a problematic notion. i've been reading... i think of this as pop culture, too... stuff about 'giftedness'. particularly interesting is the idea that it can indeed make sense to consider gifted individuals to be 'special needs' similarly to how we consider intellectually handicapped individuals to be special needs.
it interested me a great deal that *motivation* was meant to be part of the syndrome. DRIVE.
there is a (pop culture) idea of 10,000 hours to expertise (based on number of hours of practice over a period of about 10 years). if you consider experts in various fields (piano, violin, ice hockey, chess etc etc) what they have in common is at least 10,000 hours of (mentally focused) practice. not that this is sufficient for expertise. but that it is necessary. what kind of DRIVE do you need to sustain that focused practice?
that that is a huge part of 'gifted'. The ability to get really very excited indeed about esoteric things (chess etc) and get total immersion lost in them for hours and hours and hours over a period of around 10 years. To become obsessed about them. Living and breathing. That a huge part of the development of excellence is the motivation and drive and fact that one gets enjoyment from the activity.
Instead of... Being poked and prodded into pretending to care and half heartedly twiddling in front of the 10 x more exciting infomercials...
Instead of... Sleep.
So much made sense...
INtense frustration at hearing someone say the same thing for the 10th time when I got it round 1. Intense frustration at people stopping - just when things were about to get interesting / take off. Apparently gifted learners aren't 'good learners' with 'good work habits'. Mostly... They have no work habits. F*ck.
My supervisor... Wasn't naturally gifted. He has worked hard and worked dilligently. Now... He comes out with things that truly sound gifted. But his brain doesn't work like a computer at a billino miles an hour like some othe rminds.. And he... Has no time for the 'gifted' thing. For him... Dillegent hard work is the key. We have whatever intellegence we need or we wouldn't have been accepted... So now you can forget about that and just work freaking hard. Fair enough...
But I see now why I had so many 'behavior problems' in school. And I've rediscovered my behavior problems and frustrations over these last couple years... I've met people... I... I didn't think there were people like that. I didn't htink... There actually were people like that. I... I don't know what to say.
Some strategies are 'frequency dependent'. Insofar as the introversion thing is 1 in 3... That suggests something. I wonder how it correlates with intelligence. Trouble is... I don't have faith in standard measures of intelligence. I suspect because my strengths / weaknesses balance out to average. Placing me in... The wrong group.
Motivationally.
Sometimes. But tehn... What hte f*ck am i doing now? i ask myself... always. shiver.
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