Today I will tell you about 7 signs that are present in a large number of High intellectual potentials. If you ever wonder if you are a person HIP That'll give you a lot of answers. My goal is to help you make your difference your greatest asset. Besides, stay well until the end because I decided to launch a training that is totally free to help you. I'm telling you more at the end of the video.
I am Paul de Connect The Dots And my high potential was detected more than ten years ago now. And today I share what I learned to help the little new ones.
NB: This article is the transcript of the above video.
Before I started, I wanted to make a little precision. The seven signs, the characteristics of the high-potential people I'm going to talk about here are characteristics that are mainly found in the rather clinical and psychological books. They are less found in scientific books. As always, you will find the library of the gifted a few books I recommend so that you too can make your own opinion.
Hypersensitivity of the gifted
The first sign is hypersensitivity.
Emotional hypersensitivity
How it manifestsEmotional hypersensitivity ? It manifests itself if you are rather a person with a lot of skin. On one side you have feelings that are very strong, very high, very low. You're really on emotional roller coasters all the time, every day, all day. It is often said that you are too sensitive, too something, too intense, etc. It's something I was told a lot anyway. Also nothing can put you in all your condition. Just a little stimulation, something nothing can make you cry, can make you happy... A teddy that is alone or a rotting fruit or vegetable can reach you. You also sometimes have very sudden mood changes. It also reaches ups and downs. That is, you can be in a very high and the second after being in a very low point.
Overall things reach you more than others (well stronger, more intensely). And these are things that don't necessarily reach others. So you don't understand why this is happening. Overall this characteristic is normal. If you are hypersensitive do not worry, you are not abnormal. Actually, what's going on is that you're an antenna. You have an antenna that better captures external stimulation. That's why I put the little drawing of the big parable. You get all the emotional external stimulations more and you feel them more. This was the first part of hypersensitivity: emotional hypersensitivity.
Sensory hypersensitivity
But there is also sensory hypersensitivity, so the hypersensitivity of our five senses, which is called hyperaesthesia. In fact, we feel our five senses more painfully or somewhat stronger. For example to touch it (with the skin mainly) it can be the labels of clothes that scratch or the sewing of socks that is very annoying. You can also have a strong sensitivity to light (with view), etc.
The creativity of HIP
Second sign that you are a person HIP It's creativity. You are generally a creative person. When I say creative, it's not necessarily artistic. It's not that you're just painting, drawing, sculpture, or I don't know what. It's also creativity in your head. You may also like creating entire worlds in your head, creating places where you are good. I do it a lot. I like spending time alone thinking and creating things in my head because it relaxes me. It's kind of like I had a parallel world in my head and it's very nice sometimes. It also makes you see things with a slightly different eye.
Overall, it is felt that this creativity is linked to a tree thought very active because you think very quickly and many things (it's tree thinking) and it makes you have plenty of ideas that are creative and innovative. The idea of tree thinking, thought in arborescence or divergent thought (it has many names) is linked to this idea of creativity.
The zebra is curious
Third sign that you are a person to High Intellectual Potential It's curiosity. Overall, when you're interested in something, you're going in full, at 200%. But the problem is that you are interested in a lot of things. So you are quickly overwhelmed and you can have a lot of difficulty prioritizing. You want to do everything and you are deeply interested in everything you do (this is never questioned) so you don't prioritize, you stay stuck, you don't do much more, and you procrastinate.
Extralucidity of High Intellectual Potential
Fourth sign that you are High Intellectual Potential It's what we call it.extra-lucidity (Sometimes it is also referred to as clairvoyance). I put the image of a crystal ball a little in Mrs Irma mode but that's not at all (I thought it was funny). In fact it's about being very lucid, hyper lucid, and extra lucid about the world. It's in the sense of being very lucid. We see the world as it is. People are seen as they are, whether good things or bad things. You see the real things. You can see behind the masks. We don't get caught by all this. We can quickly decode situations. For example, when you enter a room, you can quickly see the atmosphere inside, feel how it goes, who are people, if there are tensions, things like that.
Overall it makes us very much guided by our instincts. And this instinct is usually good, so trust him if he ever guides you. It is this extralucidity (mixed a little with hypersensitivity) that makes you get very good visions of things.
The feeling of shift in the gifted
5th sign that we are a person to High Intellectual Potential This is the feeling of difference. It's something we talk a lot about in the books and I see because many people send emails and messages about it. Overall, you've been feeling different since you were little, since you were a child and this feeling of difference makes social relationships really not easy for you. That's not your strong point, actually. You do not necessarily understand how social relations and social interactions work because you are different. So it makes a vicious circle: you don't understand how it works, so you exclude yourself, so you're even more different (others see you as even more different), so you exclude yourself even more, and so on. It's a snowball effect and it's not good.
To try to counter that you tend to put on a social mask that we call false self. It's a bit of a facade personality that serves to be included more easily with others and to meddle a little more in the crowd. But ultimately no one really knows you because this personality is wrong and it's not really you. And it can go a long way to the point where you get lost and we don't really know who we are.
Perfectionism in HIP
6th sign (and before last) that can show that you are a person to High Intellectual PotentialIt's that you're a super demanding person to yourself. So you expect so much from the rest of the world. You are a very perfectionist on absolutely everything because you love perfection. You like beautiful things. Everything has to be perfect. I get a little bit more to let go of it now, but I remember for example when I was at school making a presentation was a huge source of stress because it was necessary for the Power Point to be perfect. I was putting enormous pressure on myself. It was also necessary for my presentation itself, for me to be perfect. And besides, I was putting pressure on myself because I felt different so I was very uncomfortable with my comrades, but I wanted them to love me too. I was looking for this love and I wanted everything to be perfect because otherwise I was afraid that they wouldn't like it anymore. It was really... horrible, huge moments of pressure. I'm still glad it's over!
The sense of justice in the gifted
And finally, the last sign that proves you're a person to High Intellectual Potential This is the need for justice. In fact you feel deeply bad when there is something wrong that is happening around you. So to avoid having this horrible feeling, you develop a great sense of justice because you do not support inequalities (such as hunger in the world, global warming, small children dying I don't know where, homeless in the street,...). It hurts you deeply. You dream of a perfect world (we come back a little in the creativity where you created your world a little bit). It also comes from this need for justice where you want everything to be perfect (perfectionism) that everyone is equal (and you also have a little less that feeling of difference). In fact you love just things and things that are super equal and egalitarian.
Conclusion
This is if you have recognized yourself in these signs and overall you have 4 or more, don't hesitate to sign up now for my free mini training (above) in which we will go into more detail in all this, and which will help you make your high intellectual potential your greatest asset.
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