How Long to Read Profoundly Gifted Survival Guide

How Long Does it Take to Read Profoundly Gifted Survival Guide?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 44 minutes to read Profoundly Gifted Survival Guide by Christos Jonathan Seth Hayward

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

It's a really enchanting feeling to be a big fish in a small pond. How special! How proud! Even isolation and loneliness have a sweetness in their melancholy, which we embrace unawares. It is a somewhat different feeling to be a shark in an inflatable wading pool. Perhaps we might speak of a certain terrain, meaning the terrain for which mental health's DSM provides a basic roadmap. So what's the terrain? Imagine a circular table which is smooth and perhaps a little hilly at the center, which is where most people are. At the center, there are difficulties from time to time. People occasionally drink more than is wise, although they don't do this exactly every day. They can feel miserable, although misery does not keep them bedridden for months. They can also get pretty excited and lose a whole night's sleep, but not ten whole nights' sleep. They also have worries that are unhelpful and maybe even irrational, but these worries are never the central struggle in anyone's life. When you stray from the center and get towards the rocky edges, you start getting into more and more mental health issues: you get into the territory where the DSM-V, with all its flaws, offers a helpful roadmap. You can see how near or far things are to the center. As old sailors said, "Thar be dragons." With this roadmap, you venture too far in one direction, and you're in obsessive-compulsive disorder, and that is a behavioral health concern. You venture too far in another direction, and you find some kind of depression, whether unipolar or bipolar, and that is a behavioral health concern. You venture too far in all sorts of other directions, and you find autism, ADD, PTSD... and all of them are behavioral health concerns, which automatically include victum status, and all addressed (whether well or poorly) by the DSM-V. And then if you venture into one particularly unusual direction, what you find in the extremes of the gifted range is not even related to mental health concerns. It is pure and simple privilege. Not only is it privilege, but it is singularly impolitic to mention some of your struggles to a fellow human being, or anything that, because your realities of "I'm gifted" are jarringly askew from the content of their fantasies of "If I were rich and famous and mind-bogglingly gifted," and even when it is unavoidable, making the point that they do not even understand your level of giftedness is very, very threatening. And that's the hand you've been dealt. Which brings me to one final point in the book description: humility. Humility is a Philosopher's Stone that can find more wealth in a pile of straw than a miser or alchemist can find in rooms full of gold and silver. All of us need it, but for the profoundly gifted, that specific virtue is not just humanly necessary; it is the first and also final step of self-defense for the profoundly gifted. It is not just that, as I have been told, "The only true intelligence is humility." It's the equivalent of a martial art in which sighted students are told to keep their eyes open when they're sparring (instead of blundering about with their eyes closed).And on that track I would say, "Learn humility, but be very snobbish about who to choose it from." The Philokalia (along with St. John Chrysostom etc.) extol humility to high Heaven, but the Philokalia gives an important caveat: don't seek to learn humility from a man who is boastful. And really, some of the stuff I've seen, and you've seen, is vastly worse than mere boastfulness. People who tell you you're proud and you need to learn humility are almost always right. That said, however, don't try to learn humility from them. Seek out someone who is genuinely humble, and learn as much as you can. Pursue humility, but not under the dead hand of unprovoked efforts to teach you humility.

How long is Profoundly Gifted Survival Guide?

Profoundly Gifted Survival Guide by Christos Jonathan Seth Hayward is 282 pages long, and a total of 71,064 words.

This makes it 95% the length of the average book. It also has 87% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Profoundly Gifted Survival Guide Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 28 minutes to read Profoundly Gifted Survival Guide aloud.

What Reading Level is Profoundly Gifted Survival Guide?

Profoundly Gifted Survival Guide is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

When deciding what to show young students always use your best judgement and consult a professional.

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