Mary Elaine Jacobson has compiled a series of insightful thinking tools that enhance the gifted adult’s perceptions and perspectives about their VALUES BELIEFS CONVICTIONS® and how they express them throughout their lives. Because Everyday Geniuses are driven by the spirit of human progress, we possess the tendency to stir things up. Whether we intend to or not, we often make waves. Together with an awareness system that allows us to “see” things others may not, our sense of responsibility makes it hard for us to brush off our ideas and concerns. As might be expected, we are constantly faced with the dilemma of making a splash with our expanded perspectives or swimming silent laps in the normal pool. This paradoxical “inability” to blend in while standing out must be acknowledged. We are incapable of always successfully approximating “normal”.
