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Hoagies' Blog Hop: Multipotentiality
 Multipotentiality.
Gifted kids often have multiple strengths, and find themselves
pressured to succeed in more than one area. The gifted child
may be as talented at writing as at math, or may be as focused on
the sciences as on history. But schools and colleges often
expect kids to "settle down" and select one area of achievement.
What do we do when our kids (or we) want to achieve in more than one
(or two) area?
Don't miss our previous Blog Hops on related topics,
including
Gifted, How?
and
The "G"
Word.
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 Too
gifted? by
Devon MacEachron in Dr. Devon's Blog
- Multi-potentiality is the state of having many exceptionally strong
abilities or talents. The child who has the Midas touch and is good at
everything he does from math to science to English to music to sports to art
to leadership has multi-potentiality. It sounds wonderful doesn’t it? But
for many children and young adults it can becomes a burden...
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 Choices
exclude: The existential burden of multipotentiality by
Gail Post in
Gifted Challenges
- Although gifted children delight in their many talents when they are
young, they eventually confront the limits that time, money and energy
impose. There are only so many activities or extracurriculars they can join
(or their parents can afford). When faced with making choices, they learn
how to let go, and often mourn what might have been...
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What Shall I Be When I Grow Up? by Linda Wallin,
Living with Geniuses
- One of my favorite teachers of all time, L. C. Smith, asked our German
class what career we were thinking about doing as an adult. The room was
perfectly silent for a long time. I nervously piped up and asked something
that totally blew the atmosphere (sorry Mr. Smith), but what I was trying to
say was, “How do you decide?” When you have musical ability, athletic
ability, math and language abilities, how do you choose? I don’t remember
what else what said that day, but I remember the questions — his and mine...
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You Can Be Anything You Want! Can you? by
Adventures of Hahn
Academy
- Multipotentiality is a huge issue for the educational-vocational
counseling of gifted youth. It is too hard for them to choose what they want
to be or do as adults because they are capable of doing well in too many
areas. They have too many choices and a tendency to get bored easily because
they are inadequately challenged. Some have a constant need for something
new and challenging. These youth tend to become adults that...
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 Multipotentiality: Are You Overwhelmed By Your Too Muchness? by Paula Prober,
Your Rainforest Mind
- Today? Not much has changed. Except now, you want to be a marine
biologist musician organic farmer poet yoga instructor former hula hoop
champion.
It didn't help that people told you, "You can do and be anything you want!
You're so lucky!"
You didn't feel lucky. You still don't...
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When Everyone Wants a Piece of You by
Kathleen Casper in One World
Gifted
- When people realize your special talent for balancing time and
resources, or the way creative ideas just flow into your mind, or the way
you hate leaving a mess and have an eye for organization or the ways ideas
go together.... They grab you and don't want to let go. Let's face it-
giftedness is a blessing and a curse. People may not always understand you
or even want to befriend you, but they sure appreciate when you can get
stuff done...
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 Do You Suffer From Paralyzing Abundance? by
Aurora Remember
- I always ask the question, "What are you intensely passionate about,"
which is also ask all of the women I interview on my Embracing Intensity
Podcast. One thing that has become evidently clear is that intense, gifted,
excitable women rarely have one passion. There are many names for this -
multipotentiality, polymath, scanner, rainbow person (vs. specialist in one
thing)...
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Mentoring for
Multipotentiality by
Jessie in
CounterNarration
- Rather than reinventing the wheel each time, young people who have this
curse or blessing (take your pick, it's both!) could really benefit from
specialized guidance from those who get what they're going through and what
they'll face next...
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Is
There A True Calling? by
Planet Smarty Pants
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1. Balance extracurricular activities - its tempting to help kids develop
their interests through extracurricular activities, but it's important not
to weigh them too heavily towards one thing. It's also important to leave
enough unstructured time for kids to pursue their interests on their own.
...
3. Remember that interests change over time...
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 The
Real Problem with Multipotentiality by Heather, The Fringy
Bit
- And then it dawned on me. The real problem with multipotentiality isn’t
the “multi-“ part, it’s the “potentiality” part.
I looked up the definition of potential and here’s what I found:
Possible as opposed to actual
Capable of being or becoming
A latent excellence or ability that
may or may not be developed
And my personal favorite:
Someone or something that is
considered a worthwhile possibility...
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Parenting and Potential by Jen Campbell,
repurposed
genealogy
- At 40, I am a writer, and I feel like it's THE THING I am meant
to do, but it's not the only thing. I've got multipotentiality. Writing has
brought me closer to whatever that unnamed future next thing may be. It's
not just one thing. There's so much more that I want to learn to do, explore
and become as I age. For instance, I want to learn the art of beekeeping and
producing honey. I want...
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Multipotentiality is not the problem by
Gift-Ed Connections
- In a world where specializations are revered, multipotentiality can be
perceived as much a burden as a gift. This paradox is reflected in the old
adage "Jack of all trades, master of none..." that has dodged many a
multipotentialite. Apparently the full version includes a second part "...is
sometimes better than one" which only reinforces the mixed blessing of
having many talents. One would think that having many venues/opportunities
through which to experience life would be optimum, so what stands in the
way?...
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Updated
December 01, 2020
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