Am I truly gifted?

Question

I was identified as gifted when I was in Grade 5. Thinking back to taking the test I distinctly remember having a lot of difficulty in a couple of areas and doing very well in others. Soon after being identified I moved and was put in regular classes for a couple of years. After being back in the gifted program for 3 years now, I have developed an inferiority complex. Although I don't put much effort into school work my marks are very average but I still find myself judging others and comparing myself to them in the most trivial things (tetris!). And just today I was playing a chess match during lunch and found myself, hours later, mentally kicking myself over stupid moves that cost me the match. Anyway, I'm getting a little of base. Is it possible that I'm not gifted?

Answer 1

It's how you use what you have that is important.

Answer 2

Yea. You're retarded.

Answer 3

gifted as in, talent? I think everybody has their own special talent.. if that's what you are asking... or gifted as in very smart? I believe every human person is very smart... it just depends how they want to use their knowledge.

Answer 4

You mean a lot to me.

Answer 5

if you were tested and identified as gifted, you are gifted.  "Giftedness" is most often identified by the Cognitive Abilities Test (COGAT) and the Naglieri Nonverbal Ability Test (NNAT).   Giftedness has to do with potential and ability, not achievement or success.  Also, you should know that gifted people do not have above average abilities in all areas.  You should pursue areas that interest you and challenge yourself.  A characteristic of many gifted individuals is that, because things come easy to them for so long, they hit a wall when things become difficult.  Find something you like and push yourself.  Life will not be simple.  There are many gifted people who are flipping burgers at McDonalds.

Answer 6

yes u are, u may not know it but u have talents and intelligence different from others, so don't worry too much about it..

Answer 7

You are gifted my friend, take what knowledge you have and run with it- but dont walk around thinking you are 'inferior' to anyone!

Remember- we are all unique and what a screwed up, no fun place we'd live in if we were all the same!

Sounds like more of a ego teeter-todder situation than any gift.

Answer 8

Take a IQ Test....

No. Genius is typically defined around an IQ at or above 140s. This from IQLOGY:

The most famous high IQ societies require a score of 137 and up (Mensa requires 133).

Genius IQ is generally considered to begin around 140 to 145, representing 0.25% of the population (1 in 400):

115-124 - Above average.

125-134 - Gifted.

135-144 - Highly gifted.

145-154 - Genius.

155-164 - Genius.

165-179 - High genius.

180-200 - Highest genius.

+200 - Super genius

Answer 9

They have done tests where if they said you were a gifted part of  a class...then you became that way, and the students that were in the other half of a classroom were told they were not gifted...they behaved that way.

So, you probably are just an average normal person, that plays chess poorly.

Get over yourself!

Answer 10

Whether you're gifted or not doesn't determine whether you'll be happy or successful.  Who care what some stupid test says.  You're a very good writer, you're probably gifted in language for sure.

Stop comparing yourself to others, it'll only get you down.  Focus on your goals and how to attain them and don't concern yourself with external yardsticks.

Hopefully your parents don't put pressure on you.

Answer 11

The greatest gift is love? Are you loving, or self focussed?

Being able to earn money is great, and definately Forrest Gump the movie was based on a true life story of a guy with a low IQ score who made millions out of dumb luck?

The greatest part of what we can contribute in life is not what we get, but what we give.

It is not so much what we have, nor what we have to offer, but what we do with what we have got and how we do it?

It's a bit like a sporting match, where it matters not whether we win or lose, but how well we played the game, and, even if we lost at the end of a do or die match, whether we tried hard, played well, fairly, then perhaps, congratulated our opponent upon losing, immediately with a cheerful disposition.

So much today, folks selfishly hog the ball in team sports as a kind of self centred self focused idealism of greed for glory and fame. When maturity in truth is about assisting as many folks as you can, not for gain, glory or achievement, but altruism, good for the sake of good and for no other reason.

At the end of the day, even a five year old starts to realise there are other folks in the world too. Ironically, rewarding you for attention you get is not humility but sometimes can be humiliated. Its not so much about telling folks what you want to, but asking the correct questions to use wisdom you possess to assist where those have gone astray, can you appreciate, finding nature has gifted you well, look after your body, nutritionally nature has a way of evening up incredible genius with misfortune, a kind of leveller, but know it can be moved on from with a greater glory for what can be achieved from introspection, give time to rest, relaxation, activity or exercise and overall well being.

Surely, the greatest honour you can have in life, is to live respected and die regretted, hopefully not hurried? Also, study the liberal arts and sciences, but so too, the bible, it is the greatest book on psychology ever writen but more so a living testimonial on the greatest wisdom on earth, Christ Jesus, by it you can form a fare estimate wherein the creator has endowed the creature with a true and genuine knowledge which adversity cannot decay nor the ages weary. It is only by a strict conformance to the conduct in your own behavior that you can expect obedience to it from others.

By the time we reach old age, we are accountable for all that happens in our own life and cannot blame others. Respecting a capacity within yourself will come with time but knowing boundaries and limitations, when these matter not, you truly know the unlimited potentional of the greatest power, Christs love. For the power of God is love. God so loved the world he gave his only begotten son Christ Jesus, know it, live it, love it. Just do it.

Answer 12

I don't know but I wouldn't stress-out over it, you are who you are. Relax