Rebecca Resnick — An Intellectual Outlier

Exceptionally to Profoundly Gifted — Part 4

If you aren’t sure what some of the topics in this post are about, keep going back to the Introduction from the detailed post on January 28, 2025. The Exceptionally and Profoundly gifted subjects are all part of Level Four. In some cases, they may actually be Level Fives but there are so many complicating factors that it is impossible to be definitive in the identification. And it doesn’t really matter. What I care about is how they are doing. How are their lives going for them?

Let’s take a look at how Rebecca’s school years with her parents and educational settings affected her.

Rebecca Resnick

Level Four

Rebecca described her mother as authoritative and her father as authoritative-to-permissive in their parenting styles. Both her mother and father show personality type preferences of INFP (Idealist) compared to Rebecca’s INTP (Thinker, 1.7%, a very rare type for a female) operating style. This is a huge contrast because the F-Feeling compared to T-Thinking creates noticeably different viewpoints. In many ways, the INFP is a “soft” type compared to…