Giftedness · Self-understanding

Why identify your giftedness?

Putting a name to your functioning offers more than a label. For an adult or child, understanding giftedness can make sense of feeling out of step, clarify some difficulties and allow greater use of their resources.

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The aim: understanding, beyond naming

Identifying giftedness can help you understand yourself, adjust your environment, use your talents more fully, improve some relationships and support a child more appropriately.

Why identify giftedness in an adult?

If you are gifted, knowing it matters. Because knowing changes the lives of people with High Potential. It helps you understand your sense of experience of feeling different with most other people; fully use the talent that giftedness represents; stop suffering from your hypersensitivity, your empathy or your perfectionism; meet others who function similarly, for example through the association Mensa; better understand and improve your relationships; and fulfil yourself.

Why identify intellectual precocity in a child?

In children, identifying intellectual precocity helps explain boredom at school, possible academic difficulties, apparently strong emotions, outrage at injustice, constant questions and a desire to understand everything, and existential questions about life, death and the world. It helps clarify their specific needs and how to support them so that they develop their talent and feel fulfilled.

Giftedness: innate or acquired

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The different forms of High Potential

HEP, HIP and domain-specific giftedness: understand the main distinctions.

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Screening tests

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10 signs of giftedness

See whether several characteristics of your functioning form a pattern.

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Frequently asked questions

What does identification offer an adult?

In adults, identification can help explain feeling out of step, make better use of talents, improve some relationships and encourage greater self-fulfilment.

Why identify intellectual precocity in a child?

To better understand boredom or certain school difficulties, emotional intensity, existential questions and the child’s specific needs.

Have you long wondered why you function differently?

Screening can be a straightforward first step to explore giftedness. If you want an in-depth understanding of your profile, you can also choose an assessment directly.

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