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Giftedness: can you be too resilient?
Bouncing back quickly after hardship is generally a strength. However, recovering quickly can also lead you to underestimate the seriousness of what you experienced and remain in painful situations for too long.
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The ability to bounce back can sometimes obscure your limits
This is one paradox of resilience: it protects, but can also lead some people to minimise humiliation, criticism or other negative events because they manage to rebuild themselves nonetheless.
A highly developed ability to bounce back
The gifted people generally have an excellent ability to bounce back and move on after difficult, painful times; an ability to break out of negative trajectories and grow stronger even in risky situations. This ability is particularly developed in people with High Emotional Potential.
Resilience makes them targets for narcissistic manipulators
Paradoxically, resilience makes them prime targets for manipulators, particularly narcissistic manipulators. Gifted people rebuild themselves fairly easily after humiliation, criticism, belittling, abuse and manipulation by narcissistic manipulators. They therefore tend to minimise the abuse, telling themselves that, after all, recovering was not too difficult. This is how narcissistic control can become established and endure.
Excessive tolerance of negative events
It can go even further. Excessive tolerance of negative, painful events can develop. Some gifted people accept the worst without reacting.
Do you recognise yourself in this description? If so, the HEP screening test is the first step towards finding out whether you have this form of giftedness and finally discover who you are.
Frequently asked questions
Why can resilience become a problem?
Rebuilding yourself quickly can lead you to minimise the seriousness of negative events and tolerate certain situations for too long.
What connection can there be between resilience and HEP?
It describes the ability to bounce back as particularly developed in people with High Emotional Potential.
You bounce back… but do you sometimes accept too much?
If this ability to absorb difficulties comes with empathy, heightened sensitivity and strong adaptation to others, exploring your emotional functioning can help you recognise your limits.
