Gifted and Humble: How Does That Work?

Deborah Ruf, PhD
11 min readJul 25, 2022

Most intellectually gifted adults don’t think of themselves as gifted. Smart enough maybe, but not so special as to be gifted. After all, they were lucky, or worked hard, or didn’t get the best grades, or … whatever. Because of this reality, it is that much harder for advocates to get the systems in place that might help gifted children thrive and turn into gifted adults who thrive. And by thrive, I mean they will be able…

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Deborah Ruf, PhD

High Intelligence Specialist & Writer, Dr. Ruf writes about highly intelligent people from birth to very old age. www.fivelevelsofgifted.com