The Gifted Adult

A Revolutionary Guide for Liberating Everyday Genius

By: Mary-Elaine Jacobsen PsyD

Narrated by: Rosemary Benson

Length: 17 hrs and 37 mins

Publisher's summary

Are you relentlessly curious and creative, always willing to rock the boat in order to get things done...extremely energetic and focused, yet constantly switching gears...intensely sensitive, able to intuit subtly charged situations and decipher others' feeling? If these traits sound familiar, then you may be an Everyday Genius - an ordinary person of unusual vision who breaks the mold and isn't afraid to push progress forward....

As thought-provoking as Daniel Goleman's Emotional Intelligence, psychologist Mary-Elaine Jacobsen's The Gifted Adult draws on a wide range of groundbreaking research and her own clinical experience to show America's 20 million gifted adults how to identify and free their extraordinary potential. The Gifted Adult presents the first practical tool for rating your Evolutionary Intelligence Quotient through an in-depth personality-type profile.

Demystifying what it means to be a gifted adult, this book offers practical guidance for eliminating self-sabotage and underachievement, helping Everyday Geniuses and those who know, love, and work with them to understand and support the exceptional gifts inherent in these unique personality traits.

©1999 Mary-Elaine Jacobsen, Psy.D. (P)2020 Tantor

Written for the Gifted

This book is written by a gifted individual, for gifted individuals. If you are not gifted and are looking to understand gifted individuals, understanding this text will require you to expand your thinking past your current stereotypes and beliefs. This book is very validating for those of us who are gifted. You'll easily see yourself in the examples, and the advice given validates our way of thinking and being versus attempting to fit us into a mold acceptable by others. Great read.

For the Gifted Adult

Compared to other books on gifted psychology and the gifted personality profile, this book provides a compelling narrative and easy-to-grasp paradigm without getting overly scientific. All in all, it's a genuinely accessible and helpful read.

This Book Insults the Reader's Intellect

Authors like Dr. Jacobsen unfortunately are little credit to their profession. She often steps into the territory of a demagogue with this book. This occurs most often in Jacobsen's desire lay out self created parables and vague, ambiguous truisms. I got through maybe 4-5 hours of this but had to stop.

It reads more like a branding opportunity. The writing style is presumptuous, prescriptive, ingratiating and cloying.

Here's some truly meaningless and hollow phrases:

"liberation founded on authenticity" -self help bs

"as you elevate your souls frequency" - did science jump out the window on this?

"everyday geniuses" - self negating, ingratiating, innaccurate. Geniuses are exceptional by definition. Not everyday or common place.

"False self vs true self" - further self help bs with no research backing

For a book that often references the "Revolutionary" it's simply another self help book recycling the same tropes and tactics of the previous. Glad I got my audible credit back.

Social Darwinist BS

as a fellow "gifted" individual who studies giftedness from a sociological point of view, this book makes me nauseous. it could be lifted straight out of the 1890s, or the late 1940s... aka the height of the American Eugenics Movement. Read the novel Earth Abides and you will see the argument for all its teleological, wealthy white supremacy as the "savior" civilization building race. i gave up after 4 hours of the book. the gifted are not the evolutionary destiny of humanity deserving of liberation from the slowpokes. we have specific cognitive skills that allow us to perceive the world in different ways. if you find meaning in that ability, good for you. that doesnt mean being treated poorly and developing mental health problems means liberation in the guise of taking on the hero's cape, deserving of great destiny as some sort of plato's wisdom kings.

i gave it two stars because the narrator deserves better than this.

should include PDF extras

This book goes into much detail, including a self-assessment and it referst to drawings, However, you need to buy the paper book or ebook in order to take the test. The audiobook cannot be used as a standalone reference. It should have included a PDF.