Living Giftedness: Interview with American PhD, Deborah Ruf

Interview by Damião Silva (Brazilian, speaking Portuguese).

https://youtu.be/aupO-ofwlmY?feature=shared

Dan (Damião Silva) lives and works in Brazil. There is a huge following of his podcasts about giftedness. Damião speaks in Portuguese and I speak in English. He had an interpreter tell me what his questions were and she translated my responses into Portuguese for their main audience. My English speaking audiences will understand my responses. There is a transcript off to the right on YouTube after you’ve expanded the description on the left under the video. I discovered a new trick (for me) that if you click on the three little dots above the transcript, it asks you to Toggle Timestamp. If you click on that, it gives you the key words to the questions and you can click on any of them to go directly to it.

The interview was heavily edited to make it meet the half-hour goal for length. I had far more breathing room than appears to be the case when you watch it. The interview covers a ton of information and sometimes you’ll need to guess at what the question was. If you want to know what the question was, I can help you figure that out. I also was pleased to see how the interviewer gave me free…