It takes courage and sass for a gifted woman to accept being herself walking through this often crazy world. Take it from Nicole White, who describes her childhood as a struggle to understand what she was. Moving from job to job until adulthood, she was judged for being too smart or introverted and often felt out of place. Only at age 40 could she understand the answers to "What does being Gifted mean?"
Watch Someone Gets Me ▶️ Surviving this Insane World as Gifted Women with Nicole Whit...
It takes courage and sass for a gifted woman to accept being herself walking through this often crazy world. Take it from Nicole White, who describes her childhood as a struggle to understand what she was. Moving from job to job until adulthood, she was judged for being too smart or introverted and often felt out of place. Only at age 40 could she understand the answers to "What does being Gifted mean?"
Watch Someone Gets Me ▶️ Surviving this Insane World as Gifted Women with Nicole White.
Key points covered in this episode:
✔️ You start looking for what's wrong with you and realize that's something right with you. In school or the workplace, Nicole felt misunderstood for being different. "People experience you differently. So they think that you're trying to outshine them. They think that you're trying to outdo them. And then the claws come out when they start to feel that way. So it's the sabotage, the holding back, the career, the smear campaigns, the rumor mills, all these I experienced." A lot of grief and anger needs healing to reconcile that you have a gift instead of a curse.
✔️ Many don't expect that gifted adults are bullied. Dianne reminds us that what anyone says or does that's hurtful against others is about themselves. It doesn't excuse away the behavior, and it doesn't excuse away the consequence of the behavior, even though we understand it. People in your organizations or your family treat people like this, and it is never okay. You must shed light on it and be responsible and accountable for that behavior.
✔️ With being gifted, quiet quitting has become a survival mechanism in the workplace. If you're in a toxic work environment and forced to operate at a level below your capacity, you often have some cognitive dissonance. You have some push and pull going on there, especially if you don't know you're gifted because you're trying to fit in and you're not quite sure why you are having such an experience.
✔️ Don't be afraid to embrace fully who you are outside of the perceptions of others. Instead of looking at yourself through other people's perceptions (which Nicole says she's done for 30+ years), peel away those labels and opinions people throw at you and decipher the real you in all of that.
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