- An intense drive to explore, understand and master the environment. This drive can feel like a powerful physiological force that is difficult to describe and hard to control or direct.
- Intense motivation to explore “big” ideas and “big problems” in detail and in depth.
- A capacity for learning that is immediate and effortless:
- Their unusual capacity to combine razor sharp logical and uncanny intuition makes them bored and inpatient with conventional teaching and standard educational settings.
- A capacity for precocious accomplishments in many domains – intellectual, artistic, athletic, musical.
- Extra sensitivities:
- Physical sensitivities: light, temperature, sound, food, fabric
- Intense allergic responses.
- Aesthetic sensitivities: color, rhythm, form, space – a sophisticated sense of beauty well in advance of their years.
- A capacity to “tune into” inanimate objects – a special fascination and capacity to bond with the physical environment.
- Emotional sensitivies
- Empathy for other people’s pain and suffering.
- Emotional insight into others personality structure, intellect and conflicts.
