The Gifted Adult Experience: Why You Feel Everything So Deeply — And What To Do About It

I’ll be honest with you — this episode of The Amanda Kaufman Show hit incredibly close to home.

When my dear friend, author, and researcher Chad Peevy first introduced me to the concept of gifted adults, it was like someone finally handed me a mirror that reflected parts of myself I didn’t have language for before. And based on my experience coaching high-achievers for years, I know I’m not alone.

So in this conversation, we dove headfirst into what it means to be a gifted adult — the challenges, the intensity, the emotional rollercoaster — and, more importantly, how we can work with this wiring instead of constantly feeling like we’re fighting against it.

If you’ve ever wondered why you feel things so deeply, why perfectionism keeps tripping you up, or why you’ve struggled to fit into traditional paths, you might just find yourself in this conversation too.

What Is a Gifted Adult?

The first thing we had to unpack is that giftedness isn’t just something that applies to kids who were tested for advanced programs in school. In fact, many adults who would qualify as gifted were never officially identified as such in childhood. And that creates one of the first challenges: we often don’t have the language to describe our experience.

As Chad shared, there’s actually very little research on gifted adults — only about 15% of giftedness research focuses on adults. That leaves many people without a clear roadmap for understanding what they’re experiencing.

Instead, as Chad put it, discovering you’re a gifted adult often happens through finding mirrors in others’ stories. You hear someone else describe their lived experience — the way their mind works, how they process emotions, the cycles they go through — and something clicks. You realize: That sounds exactly like me.

That was 100% my experience as Chad started sharing his research. I was like: Check. Check. Yep, that too. Wow — okay, this explains so much.

The Core Characteristics of Gifted Adults

While gifted adults don’t all present exactly the same way (there’s no one-size-fits-all checklist), Chad shared that two traits show up again and again in the research.

Perfectionism

Gifted adults have the ability to see an ideal outcome in their minds. We envision the perfect solution, the most optimized system, the most beautiful execution of an idea.

And while that’s a superpower, it’s also a huge source of frustration. Because reality rarely matches that ideal, and we can easily spiral into disappointment or paralysis when things don’t measure up.

As Chad described it so well: “We’re constantly in this cycle of seeking out the perfect and failing.”

Whether it’s in relationships, business, creative work, or even something as simple as bad customer service at a store — we feel frustrated when we can see the better way, but it isn’t happening.

Heightened Sensitivity & Self-Awareness

Gifted adults tend to have heightened emotional sensitivity and self-awareness. We feel things more intensely than the average person. When something goes wrong, it’s not just mildly disappointing — it can feel devastating.

Chad shared how this emotional intensity is often misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder or mood disorders because of the high highs and low lows. But at the core, it’s not necessarily pathology — it’s just the way our nervous system is wired.

The Cycle of Disintegration and Rebuilding

One of the most powerful frameworks Chad brought into the conversation is based on the work of Kazimierz Dabrowski and his Theory of Positive Disintegration.

In simple terms, this theory suggests that gifted adults often go through cycles where a setback or failure causes us to disintegrate — emotionally, mentally, or spiritually. But instead of this being purely destructive, these disintegrations actually create opportunities for growth.

Each time we rebuild, we integrate new beliefs, new experiences, and greater maturity. But without the right understanding and support, many gifted adults get stuck in the disintegration phase, thinking something is deeply wrong with them.

As Chad explained, “What they're experiencing is actually a required part of that person's development… but the tragedy is that so many of us don't have the guidance.”

Why This Resonated So Deeply With Me

As I was listening to Chad share this research, I couldn’t help but think back to my own childhood. I was never formally tested for gifted programs, but my mom homeschooled me for years because I would race through traditional curriculum so quickly that my teachers didn’t know what to do with me.

Even now, I recognize the way my brain is constantly ideating, processing, and thinking several steps ahead. And yet, I’ve also struggled with perfectionism, emotional regulation, and sometimes feeling like I don’t fully fit into the environments I’m in — even when surrounded by amazing people.

This conversation helped me put words to things I’ve lived with for years, both personally and as a coach working with brilliant, high-achieving clients who often face similar struggles.

What Do You Do Once You Know?

The big question we tackled next was: once you recognize you're a gifted adult, then what?

For Chad, everything shifted once he had language for his experience. He shared how powerful it was to finally feel seen — to realize, “This isn’t just Chad. This is how giftedness works.”

From there, it’s about learning to work with your wiring rather than against it.

Build intentional structure

Gifted adults often resist routine and the mundane because we’re easily bored. But simple tools like time-blocking can provide the necessary structure to help us stay focused on long-term goals.

Learn discernment with perfectionism

Instead of trying to be perfect at everything, we can start to choose where to apply our perfectionism. Some projects truly deserve that level of attention and mastery. Others may not. Having the awareness to know the difference is key.

Build your support team

Isolation is common for gifted adults. That’s why community is so important — whether that’s coaching, therapy, peer support, or close relationships with people who truly get you.

As Chad beautifully put it: “The antidote to all of it is finding like-minded people to just be in community with.”

You Are Not Broken

If you take away nothing else from this episode, I hope you remember this: you are not broken.

The emotional intensity, the perfectionism, the disintegration cycles — these aren’t flaws. They’re part of your wiring. And with the right understanding, support, and tools, you can learn to leverage your giftedness for growth, leadership, and fulfillment.

Want to go deeper?

If this resonates with you (and I suspect it might if you’ve read this far), here are a few next steps:

Visit Chad’s website: https://giftedadult.com

Listen to the full episode of The Amanda Kaufman Show wherever you get your podcasts

Grab my free Thrive & Scale Expert Blueprint here: https://thecoachesplaza.com/the-thrive-and-scale-blueprint

Join us inside Clients Over Chaos for more coaching and support: https://login.thecoachesplaza.com/communities/groups/clients-over-chaos/home

Chapters List

00:00 Introduction to Gifted Adults

03:03 Understanding the Gifted Adult Experience

05:37 The Emotional Roller Coaster of Giftedness

08:27 The Importance of Community and Support

11:04 Navigating Perfectionism as a Gifted Adult

13:23 Practical Steps for Gifted Adults

15:59 The Lifelong Journey of Giftedness

18:21 Resources and Next Steps for Gifted Adults

Full Transcript

Chad Peevy (00:00)

We have a failure, have a setback, we disintegrate, but then we build ourselves back up. And it's positive because we're building ourselves back up with this new ideas, new beliefs, new experience, and it becomes a more positive experience for us if we allow it to be.

Amanda Kaufman (00:32)

Well, hello and welcome back to the Amanda Kaufman show. And I am so excited because my very dear friend Chad Peavy is joining us on the show today. If you don't know Chad, you really, really should. He is the author of Broken and Untangled, and he is a genius. I just have to say he's a genius when it comes to people, their development, their psychology. And Chad, my gosh, welcome to the show. I'm so glad you're here.

Chad Peevy (00:59)

Thanks for having me, Amanda. It's good to see you.

Amanda Kaufman (01:02)

Yeah, it's good to see you too. my goodness. So Chad, you've been introducing me to a new idea, a new concept that I honestly hadn't heard of until you texted me about it. Why don't you take 30 seconds and explain to our dear listeners what it is you're working on these days?

Chad Peevy (01:18)

I'm working on the idea of gifted adults. And as we've talked about, many of us were identified as gifted and talented children and went to our once a week in the library to do puzzles. And then we grow up and everyone thinks that because you're smart that you should be okay. You're smart and therefore everything is gonna work out in your life. We don't have to worry about you. But as I dive more and more into the research, what I'm finding is that that is

The opposite of that is true. Gifted adults handle life very differently than other folks. And there are some significant differences that we experience in adulthood that, in my opinion, need a lot more attention. As you and I have talked over the years, I find my life to be a little bit of a roller coaster emotionally, just dealing with a lot of stuff growing up a gay kid in rural Arkansas. And I wrote about all of that in Breaking Untangle.

And even in doing the mindset work, was hard for me to like some of the things would work, but then they didn't work. And then I would get really frustrated because I would sort of spiral down and not really understand why. Well, I thought I'd figured that one thing out. And this was just this continuous cycle of being okay, figuring stuff out and then sort of falling again. And none of that made sense to me until, um, coming upon this idea of being a gifted adult.

And as soon as I started reading and doing some research on gifted adults, everything just started clicking for me. Things just started making so much more sense when put through that lens. So that's what I'm working on.

Amanda Kaufman (02:49)

That's so exciting. when you texted me this idea and you started sharing with me some of your preliminary research on it, it blew my actual mind because I was thinking about, of course, our friendship and our relationship. We've gotten to know each other really well over the years. I was like, could be that, could be that, could be that, could be that. And I'm running through this checklist. So it was like a revelation for me personally. But I also just noticed in a lot of the entrepreneurial circles that I travel in that

Chad Peevy (03:06)

Yeah. ⁓

Amanda Kaufman (03:15)

I've just met so many who say like, I go to the therapist, but I'm the one that in the last five minutes says the gotcha move, right? Because they're just, they're smart. They're ready to anticipate what's gonna happen in that environment. So they find therapy to typically not be terribly effective. And like even coaching can have limited utility for them because it's almost like they're too smart for their own good in some ways. Yeah, so can you like unpack?

Chad Peevy (03:39)

That's exactly right. That's exactly right. Exactly how I would phrase

that too.

Amanda Kaufman (03:43)

Too smart for their own good, right? Yeah, yeah. like, as you dug deeper and you started really looking at, and I know you dug really deep into this, what makes a gifted adult a gifted adult? Like, how do you know? Like, maybe you were a gifted child, but maybe you were never tested for gifted or not. Like, what are some of the signs or the tells that someone might be experiencing the gifted adult experience, I guess?

Chad Peevy (04:08)

Yeah, so it's a really good question. It's a tricky one to answer. There's no definitive test or assessment that can tell you whether you're a gifted adult. That just does not exist. So I think what's missing for me, the reason it took me so long to relate to the ideas that I read in the research around giftedness is because we'd have so few mirrors put up for us about what giftedness looks like in adults. Giftedness, we started talking about giftedness in the early 1920s.

mainly focused on kids and over this hundred plus years of research on giftedness, less than 15 % of that research has focused on adults. So there's hardly anything, anything out there on the gifted adult experience. And so how do you know if you're gifted? You have to start listening to people who identify as gifted and seeing if their story relates to you. You have to start reading the...

very, very few books that exist for gifted adults and see if you relate to those ideas. So there's a process of relating to and finding mirrors that exist for us and see does this fit? And if, if I can tell you in my case and it sounds like in yours too, when I started reading about it just a little bit, it was just like click, click, click, click, click, click, click. Like everything just started falling into place in my head. And so that's

That's what I would say to anybody that's wondering, is this me? Does this fit? That's how I think we end up knowing. Some of the characteristics that we have as gifted adults is there are really two that stand out consistently across the research. The first one is we are perfectionist. So we see in our minds, we're able to see the ideal outcome, the ideal situation.

And we live a lot of our lives frustrated because the ideal is not reality. And so we're constantly in this cycle of trying to, whether it's us, our relationships, you know, I can go to a store and if the service is bad or their process is bad, I'm pissed off more than the average person because I see the way it should be. And I don't understand why they're not doing it the way it should be done. And so this is my life experience. It's just constant perfection seeking out the perfect and failing. And then the other thing that

It's just an over heightened sensitivities or heightened self awareness. We're much more aware of ourselves than the average Joe, much more self awareness going on. And there was a guy that talked about this, a psychologist. He's long dead. Debrowski, he had a theory called the theory of positive disintegration and a lot of giftedness research is based on this theory of positive disintegration.

where he talks about, he was the first one to say that, you know, when we experience things like setbacks and go through this sort of depression or anxiety around the perfectionism or inability to achieve perfectionism, that we sort of disintegrate. And he was the first one to say that maybe for some folks that disintegration, that depression, that anxiety shouldn't be pathologized. We shouldn't just call it depression and give them a pill. We shouldn't pathologize what they're experiencing.

but what they're experiencing is actually a required part of that person's development. So he talks about disintegrating in terms of ourself and our ideas and the things that are important to us. We have a failure, have a setback, we disintegrate, but then we build ourselves back up. And it's positive because we're building ourselves back up with this new ideas, new beliefs, new experience, and it becomes a more positive experience for us if we allow it to be.

The tragedy is that so many of us don't have the guidance. We don't have mirrors in our society of giftedness. And so when we pull ourselves back up, we experience the negative sides of that rather than the positive opportunities that come with disintegration and rebuilding. That was a really long answer to your question.

Amanda Kaufman (08:03)

When you say like the negative sides of

the disintegration, like what could that look like?

Chad Peevy (08:07)

Mm-hmm.

Say that again.

Amanda Kaufman (08:10)

So this disintegration process, it's almost like, you know, if I was to sum it up as I'm understanding it, it's like, as a gifted person, perhaps I have this ability to visualize my ideal or my perfection, and then I encounter reality. And then my heightened emotional experience causes that crumble, that anxiety and that depression to just like...

be a very eventful episode. Like it's not just disappointing. It's shattering because there's this reality expectation that you have. And then there's the real reality, right? And then it's like, ooh, disintegration. I'm almost visualizing it as like this fall apart-ness and this ability to build back up. And then when you're building back up, you're smarter and wiser. So because you're smarter and wiser, perhaps the next time you go to set that ideal,

Chad Peevy (08:39)

Yes.

Yes.

Amanda Kaufman (09:01)

you have a different standard and expectation. But again, you kind of get caught in that cycle of idealism, facing that reality and then crash. Am I getting that right?

Chad Peevy (09:10)

100%. And because,

yeah, I think that from my understanding of the research, that's pretty well said. And I think you're also hitting a note there when you said that we feel it more intensely. That's really the crux of giftedness is the intensity that we're living. In fact, one of the books, one of the few books on this topic is called Living With Intensity.

And we just live with heightened sensitivities heightened. Dabrowski called it our over excitabilities. And so you're absolutely right. We we've experienced a setback and it's not just all shocks like we are a failure and we are we are never, know, one of the one of the over excitabilities is our active imaginations. Gifted people have usually and again, you can't say that a gifted person has all the things.

So not everybody's going to have an overactive imagination. Not everybody's going to be overly intellectual. Not everybody's going to have everything, but the things that you do have are going to be very, very heightened. And so, yeah, your emotional over-excitabilities are going to be working overdrive. It's not just a minor setback. And the flip side of that is also true. When something goes well, it's like we're euphoric.

And this is why so many times that gifted people are misdiagnosed as bipolar. I've been asked more than a couple of times by new folks if I am bipolar. And then after the talking to me, they're like, yeah, you're not bipolar. But I can't blame them for initially thinking that because I do have extreme highs and then I'll have extreme lows and it's just back and forth, but it's not manic. It's just intensity. so that's, there's very little, as I said, very little research on this practitioners, psychiatrists.

Therapists coaches, they don't know about this. There's very very little little research on it And that's one of the reasons that I'm so excited about this topic It needs a good pitch man giftedness get needs a good PR campaign to get folks to understand from therapists and and your general practitioners and your psychiatrists and your coaches need to know that people like this Exist that they're not what's called double depressed or they're not manic depressive or they're not bipolar

They're just living with intensity and there are ways to help them through it that I'm finding in the research.

Amanda Kaufman (11:24)

I love that. And I think one of the reasons that I got so excited about talking about this with you and some like, let's do a podcast, right? Was because that's been not just my own personal lived experience, but I've worked with so many really, really, I call them smart petudies, just like people who are very high achievers, but they have high intensity, like that intensity index, it's so high.

And so the lows are really low, the highs are really high, but there's that fixation that they have with it that it's not just like random. It's not random happiness or random sadness. It's like very, very intense. It is intense. think intense is a great word for it. And so when you started to describe like what a gifted adult might experience and what it might be, I got so excited as a coaching practitioner because I was like,

Chad Peevy (11:55)

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Kaufman (12:16)

Maybe there's things that I can do to really meaningfully help and not just have the observation of the, you know, we've talked many times about this intelligence trap where sometimes people are just, you know, they're either so intense or they're so smart or they're so passionate that they aren't doing the basic things that allow them to get to that level of the functioning and whatever their goal is. And like, that's the trap. It's not that they're not capable. It's not that they're not intelligent. It's not that they don't care. It's like

Chad Peevy (12:35)

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Kaufman (12:45)

this block to doing the basics that gets in the way. And I am so excited about this. let's just say somebody identifies as gifted, talented as an adult, or they feel like they're checking a of these boxes kind of the way we found when we were talking. What next? Now that you know that, like what actually changes?

Chad Peevy (13:06)

For me, I think everything changed. Everything about how I was seeing, how I was approaching life has completely changed. I think what changes first is a sense of being understood in a way that you've never felt understood in your entire life. I was a kid, in addition to just being a gay kid in rural Arkansas and feeling out of place, when I went to school,

and was able to be part of a gay community, I didn't even feel like I fit in there. And then that compounds that sense of loneliness and isolation that so many gifted people experience because they think that it's between one and 5 % of the population that would be considered gifted. So there are just fewer of us. And so it's very hard to feel seen, be seen, not feel lonely, not feel isolated. How could you not?

So for me, what changed was, my God, there's a name for this. This is not just Chad, right? I think there's a part of going through my life where it's just like, that's just how Chad is. And as long as that's how Chad is, that's Chad bearing a lot of responsibilities for things that Chad could have never helped. And now that I have a label for it, it's like, that's not just you, that's what this thing does.

To people like you. This is what it means to live with this thing. So for me just being seen and Under having an understanding of what's going on has changed everything for me and then for me it has been diving into the research on what this means and looking at Some new tools that are helping me understand how I experience the world But also going back and looking at some old tools and being like,

This is why this one thing is really important for me. To your point, skipping over the fundamentals. Smart people get very bored with the fundamentals. That's why they don't do it. It's boring, right? They see the empire that's possible and want to jump into the empire without doing, know, putting the first cobblestone down because putting the first cobblestone down is really freaking boring. And that's why so many of them end up in entrepreneurship.

Amanda Kaufman (14:54)

Yes, that's true.

Chad Peevy (15:09)

is because they get very, very bored with mundane things. So now, how do I think about that? Okay, well, if you want to build the empire as an entrepreneur, you do need to go back to the fundamentals, but now I can go back to the fundamentals knowing that...

There's this thing that's gonna inside of you that's not gonna want you to do the fundamentals, which is why you have to be more intentional about doing things like for me, time blocking, just time block, just do simple little things that are gonna help you stay on track and help you navigate the mundane parts of the human experience, be more intentional in planning that out so that it's more, I'm better able to tolerate it. I don't know if that answers your question.

as pointedly as you would like. Those are the couple of things that I'm thinking about.

Amanda Kaufman (15:54)

No,

it really does answer the question because I love a good personality assessment. I like to know myself better. I'm big into personal development. But I do appreciate you lining out a little more of like the so what now what of the gifted adult conversation. Right. Because I especially feel in this day and age, we have this tendency to label stuff

Right, we have this tendency to just sort of say, you know, it's this issue or this problem. And then it's like the conversation just stops. It's like, I've got this explanation and I really appreciate you kind of going through like, and so therefore we can do something with this information, you know.

I noticed in myself, like, as you laid out some of that research for me and I'm reading through all the, first of all, you caught my attention, you know, like I was, I was reading through all of the different nitty gritty details of what you shared with me. And I was having the same sort of like, my gosh, my gosh, my gosh, you know, moments where there were so many moments in my own life where I was confused as to like,

why certain things were happening, how, why was I having such a response and it felt like no one cared, right? No one around me was like activated by it. And I was like, well, maybe I'm just like a hyper sensitive human. And the problem that I have with like just labeling things is like, but now what? Like if I'm just gonna be sensitive all the time, right? What do I do about that? And

Chad Peevy (17:09)

Yes. Yeah. Yeah.

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Kaufman (17:28)

You know, I

think it can be really confusing, especially if you're somebody that has a lot of aspirations and you and you do desire to do things that require, for example, leadership like this has been a big thing that has occurred to me in the last few years is like.

to be a great leader means a lot of emotional regulation. It means, you know, having, we've talked a bit about like this idea of psychological discipline that is not my natural way. My natural way is all over the place. I'm like ideating. today I'm actually very happy because I'm slightly completely exhausted. So it's slowed my brain down and I'm like,

Chad Peevy (17:46)

Mm-hmm.

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Kaufman (18:07)

You know, it's a little bit of a relief, but then at the same time, it's like, well, if I'm only going to get relief by being, you know, being robbed of sleep last night, then what kind of quality of life am I going to be able to expect for myself? How can I build something where I'm able to be that kind of I'm snapping my fingers a lot to represent? Like just I am thinking about a lot of things all at the same time, even when I'm practicing incredible presence. And when I was reading that, that research, I was like,

You know, I was never tested as a gifted kid, but I'm sure if you were to ask my mom, she'd be like, yeah, well, you would have been if I grew up somewhere else. But that was actually one of the reasons she homeschooled me was I did correspondence learning for four years, and it was in large part because I was just cranking through the curriculum to the point where the teacher had so many special projects that I was working on, she didn't really know what to do with me.

Chad Peevy (18:33)

Mm-hmm.

Amanda Kaufman (19:03)

Right. so, yeah, no wonder years later, it's like, hmm, maybe you still have a lot of energy that you want to put towards things. Maybe you still struggle with some of the, you know, social challenges and the bullying and wanting to fit in and never, ever fitting in.

Chad Peevy (19:03)

Yeah, it's a common experience.

Yeah, that's very, very

common stuff with gifted adults.

I think it's also important for your listeners to know it doesn't ever go away. The research that I'm reading and exploring on this says that it's never going to go away. You are going to be snapping your fingers to express ideas because your mind is going so much faster than your mouth can possibly articulate what you're thinking. And this is going to be your entire life experience. So there's...

Amanda Kaufman (19:41)

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm.

Chad Peevy (19:45)

Right now I'm writing a book and I'm outlining the chapters that I want to include as I go through the research and one of them is old age giftedness and old age because gifted people's old age looks very very different than what we're accustomed to seeing aging look like and I think that's just a fascinating topic that we're all gonna have to deal with and back to your point about labeling Amanda I think one of the things that has helped me in having a label specifically on perfectionism

So this is a really tangible way of thinking about or practical way of thinking about perfectionism. Now that I know that that's something I'm living with and I'm gonna have to live with for the rest of my life, I can bring more intention and distinction to where I apply that perfectionism. So I can engage coaches or a therapist or just a support community, which is incredibly important for people who are gifted. That's sort of the antidote to all of it. I'm finding it is finding like-minded people to just be in community with.

But, you I think it was a couple of weeks ago, you and I were having a conversation and you were like, you know, don't spend time on that thing. And I'm, and I pushed back on you because I'm like, well, that's the thing that really matters to me. And gifted folks get to a place in their development where many of, should say that money no longer is the driving force, that the driving force is the meaning and the purpose and fulfilling your potential because that's part of it is we have so much potential and you want to.

Amanda Kaufman (21:03)

Mm-hmm.

Chad Peevy (21:11)

realize that potential. And so even if it doesn't become a commercial success, it really means a lot to me to do that one thing. And so that's what it for me, having a label has helped with is being able to look at what goes along with that and then bringing distinction to, all right, I know it's a thing. I'm going to be more discerning and where I apply that thing. And I have a choice about where I apply it. And being a perfectionist is actually a superpower when applied properly.

and knowing when to let it go. so, yeah, that's what I'm continuing to learn.

Amanda Kaufman (21:45)

And it's hard. mean, I've literally

tattooed on my arm. Let it go. Right. Like, and that was before I knew about any of this gifted stuff. But seriously, I'm resonating so much with what you're saying around the perfectionism piece, because when I think about, you know, what stops me, what what keeps me from going further faster, it is for freaking sure maladaptive perfectionism. And, you know, I love your solution of just like, let's put

Chad Peevy (21:50)

Let it go, yeah.

Amanda Kaufman (22:13)

boundary on that or at least let's at least have discernment on that, you know, like of like just being able to say, well, I know that on one hand, maybe I want to monetize this idea, but on the other hand, it's really important to me that it's at this particular level of standard. But then on the other hand, I know I've got like a deadline that I'd like to start seeing results by. And so it empowers you to start having that conversation about, okay, I am perfecting.

Chad Peevy (22:16)

Yes.

Amanda Kaufman (22:39)

I am not perfect before I start. I am perfecting. So when can I let that thing squeak out into the world so that I can start getting the feedback loops going so that I can actually actively perfect it? Because there's still like something yummy about making something really, really great. And so it's almost, I think of it like you're shifting the care. You're shifting the focus to like...

Chad Peevy (22:57)

Yes.

Amanda Kaufman (23:02)

post release or forcing a release of different stages of things so that you can actually actively perfect it. Yeah, that's cool. So you're writing a book, you got anything else cooking about about gifted adults these days?

Chad Peevy (23:11)

Mm-hmm. Yeah.

I created a very comprehensive assessment to help folks identify different parts of their giftedness. It's like 10 sections long. There are 350 questions on this assessment. It really dives into a lot of what's going on in this very rich inner life that you're experiencing and helps make sense of it and does a lot of what you're talking about. Okay, here it is. Now, what can you do with this? So I've been working on that.

working on the book and just getting all the things going.

Amanda Kaufman (23:49)

love it. That's so, good. so if people wanted to learn more from you and keep up with you, what's the best way to do that?

Chad Peevy (23:58)

Go to giftedadult.com. When you get there, there will be a very short 12 question quiz that will help you identify some of the symptoms or evidence of giftedness. Take that. It will spit out a result for you to, not as a diagnosis, but to open up some more questions for you to explore. And that will also subscribe you to my newsletter on this topic, which is called The G-Word. And that will put you on an email sequence that will...

There are several emails that you'll be getting that will help you every day think a little bit more about this idea of giftedness and seeing if you relate to that and if that applies. And if so, what can you do about that?

Amanda Kaufman (24:36)

just tremendous, so, good. And I just want to like asterisk and footnote here for everyone. Like if you're listening to this and you're like, that's why I've been, you know, feeling an emotional experience here. I always advocate and I want to remind you again, like have a team, you know, consider working with a therapist, consider working with a coach, consider working with your doctor on what your real experience is day to day. think that isolationism especially

That's not just limited to gifted and talented adults. That is a real experience that a lot of people are faced with. So I just really want to urge you that if you're feeling like you need to talk to somebody, then that means you do. And so you should definitely find somebody that you trust that you can speak to and you can start enrolling a support team, whether you identify as gifted and talented or not. But perhaps you just got another idea about what could be going on.

in your experience that you can activate some more learning around and get to know yourself even better and improve your quality of life, which is what we're all about here. So that is awesome. Chad, thank you so much for joining us on this episode.

Chad Peevy (25:42)

Thanks for having me. I appreciate it.

Amanda Kaufman (25:44)

Yeah, my pleasure. And dear listener, don't forget to subscribe and leave a comment or even better, share a review because it helps people to choose this episode when they're choosing what to listen to on the podcast. And if you have a gifted and talented friend that you think would really benefit from this conversation, just grab the link to the episode and shoot it over to them on text or DM. I'm sure they'd appreciate it. All right, dear listener, we'll see you next time. And until then, do what matters.