Yet there are people who think a number of specific personality traits are to be seen more often in
intellectually gifted people.
In a project known as the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, Vanderbilt psychologists David Lubinski, Camilla Benbow, and their colleagues found that, even among a sample of
intellectually gifted people, a higher level of cognitive ability in childhood forecasted great accomplishment later in life, both in school and beyond.
Not exact matches
The study has been stretching back over the past few decades, and following the lives of 1500
intellectually «
gifted»
people.
First, there is the growth perspective, a liberating way of viewing
persons (including yourself) in terms of (1) their present strengths and their rich unused capacities —
intellectually, spiritually, interpersonally, creatively; (2) their profound inner strivings to fulfill more of these good
gifts of life; (3) the pull of a better future toward which they can move by the fuller use of their inner riches.