Key points

Gifted people often experience a painful awareness that they are capable of more than their life reflects.

At the same time, many gifted adults have internalized messages that their power is dangerous.

The envy gifted adults may feel is not shallow, but instead signals a legitimate need for congruence.

Existential crisis for the gifted often begins as a subtle, recurring awareness, a quiet hum that says, "I am more than this." Or some varying version: "I am in the wrong place," "I do not have any equals here," "I am wasting my potential." From time to time, you feel the deep, cellular knowing that you were meant for something more expansive than your current circumstances allow. These instincts are not groundless. Your unconscious has accumulated information about your gi

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