When Giftedness Stops Fitting the Model
Why the real story behind high ability won’t be found in psychology—only in those who live it
And this is precisely why my patience with the hocus-pocus chatter around giftedness is running out.
Not because the topic is unimportant, but because the discourse itself exposes how limited the current framework truly is.
Giftedness is still treated as if it were a random genetic bonus — a lucky biological glitch. But anyone who works from the inside knows this is false. HB is not an accident. It is the result of intelligent influence, a developmental intervention, an innate deviation from the average that carries direction.
And the HB community actually knows this already. You can hear it in the language, feel it in the experiences, taste it in the stories. But exactly at the point where it becomes interesting — where you must acknowledge that HB is more than a biological footnote — the conversation collapses. Not because it isn’t true, but because the so-called experts simply aren’t equipped to go there.
The moment you say that giftedness is not merely coincidental but a form of information-denser cognition, a different layer of consciousness, a distinct signature in perception and processing, the room becomes uneasy. It doesn’t fit the reigning psychological model. So the phenomenon gets flattened into “faster thinking,” “higher IQ,” “sensory differences,” so everything remains tidy inside the old boundaries.
And this is exactly where it breaks.
We don’t lack research. We lack the courage to let the phenomenon speak instead of forcing it into an outdated model. The difference between a real explorer and an expert is simple: the explorer follows what he sees; the expert forces what’s seen into his familiar theory.
Gifted individuals themselves will need to speak up. Not from victimhood, but from clarity. Because as long as we allow HB to be reduced to a statistical deviation of the same human, we will keep talking about symptoms and miss the actual mechanism.
Giftedness is not a coincidence. It is an indicator. And it tells a story far larger than psychology is capable of holding.
A common denominator nowadays. And surely not limited to Giftedness. I wonder whether it's because of collective praise of so-called "experts" or whether Giftedness, in particular the debate surrounding it, has also been caught in the crosshairs of Woke monoculture. 50/50, anyone?
Precisely correct! Perhaps more will read your books and expand the framework. Out of more than 400 books I found worth reading and applying, your book made the Top Two. Book Therapy - https://georgiapatrick.substack.com/p/book-therapy