The Smart Teens' Guide to Living with Intensity: How to Get More Out of Life and Learning
148The Smart Teens' Guide to Living with Intensity: How to Get More Out of Life and Learning
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Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781935067009 |
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Publisher: | Gifted Unlimited |
Publication date: | 03/01/2010 |
Pages: | 148 |
Sales rank: | 1,063,863 |
Product dimensions: | 5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d) |
Age Range: | 13 - 17 Years |
About the Author
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Part I You as a Learner: Interested and Intense 9
Chapter 1 Smart, Talented, Intense, Gifted? 11
Chapter 2 Who are You, Anyway? 15
Chapter 3 Understanding Your Intensities 19
Chapter 4 Intellectual Intensity 23
Intellectual Intensity Affects Learning 24
Intellectual Intensity Affects Relationships 26
Chapter 5 Psychomotor Intensity 29
Psychomotor Intensity Affects Learning 29
Psychomotor Intensity Affects Relationships 31
Chapter 6 Sensual Intensity 33
Sensual Intensity Affects Learning 34
Sensual Intensity Affects Relationships 35
Chapter 7 Imaginational Intensity 37
Imaginational Intensity Affects Learning 38
Imaginational Intensity Affects Relationships 38
Chapter 8 Emotional Intensity 41
Emotional Intensity Affects Learning 42
Emotional Intensity Affects Relationships 43
Chapter 9 The Care and Feeding of Intense Parents 45
Part II Choose to Be a Creative Learner: Divergence and Discipline 47
Chapter 10 What Is Creativity? 49
Creativity as Divergent Thinking: All Those Uses for a Paper Clip 49
Challenges for Divergent Thinkers 51
A Closer Look at Creativity 52
Creativity: Personality, Process, or Product? 52
Creativity as Personality 53
Creativity as Process 53
Creativity as Product 53
Chapter 11 Complexity, Flow, and Creativity 55
The Complexity of Creativity 55
Flow in Creativity 58
Overcoming Inertia: Redefine Laziness 60
Chapter 12 Sleep Your Way to Creativity 63
Chapter 13 Creative Discipline: Habits of Mind and Body 65
Chapter 14 Waiting until the Last Minute: Procrastination, Perfectionism, and Creativity 75
Why We Procrastinate 76
Perfectionism 76
Lack of Goals or Planning 77
Lack of Interest or Investment 79
Too Much (Or Too Little) to Do 79
Managing Procrastination 80
Embrace Your Urge to Perfect 81
Remember that Imperfection Is Necessary for Creativity 81
Do Anything Rather than Nothing 82
Learn to Say No 82
Think about How You Want to Feel in the Future 83
Plan to Procrastinate 83
Part III Becoming a Self-Directed Learner: Teaching Yourself and Learning from Others 87
Chapter 15 What Is Self-Directed Learning? 89
How Self-Directed Learners Handle Classroom Learning 92
What Do You Want to Know or Do? 94
Online Schooling 97
Know Your Parents' Non-Negotiables 98
Chapter 16 Homeschooling 101
Why Homeschool? 102
Homeschooling Allows for Specialized Study 102
Homeschooling Accommodates Intensities 103
Different Ways to Homeschool 104
Unschooling 105
Patchwork Homeschooling 106
Part-Time Homeschooling 106
Homeschooling while in School 107
But What about College? 107
When You (or Your Parents) Don't Want to Homeschool 107
You Say Yes, They Say No 108
They Say Yes, You Say No 108
Chapter 17 College and Beyond: Non-Traditional Paths 111
Starting College in High School 112
Early College 112
Two-Year Colleges, Technical Schools, and Associate Degrees 113
Taking a Year (or More) Off 114
A Conclusion in which Nothing Is Concluded: Weaving Your Own Education Tapestry 117
Habits of Mind for Intense Learners 118
References 121
Index 125
About the Author 131