Unraveling gifted minds | Sameena Manasawala | TEDxPune

For gifted individuals the highest level of happiness is when they can contribute to the lives of others, to the society. Infact it is these very kids who have the potential to be our future leaders, innovators, social change agents. And for that to happen, we need to mine these diamonds out, give them that cut and polish so that the light within shines through.
Her journey at the Kaveri Group of Institutes began as a School Counselor and culminated in designing programs to address needs of gifted children. Her passion to address this issue has furthered her education by being awarded a Fellowship to attend a five-day residential course in gifted education from Belin-Blank Center for Gifted Education at University of Iowa, USA. She has also been associated with Mensa India working with tribal gifted students.

[ΓεράσιμοςΑυγουστάτος-νυ]

"Intelligent but had the emotional sensitivity of a five y old. " this sentence describes so much that I felt she was talking specifically about me.

[bluberrykush]

It is so true that we need to Start teaching every Student to find and develop their unique strengths in stead of cutting off those who doesn't fit in. So many potentially great minds never unfold because they where told they aren't gold if they don't fit in

[hauntedshadowslegacy]

In one year of Elementary school, I got in trouble for filling out the first few pages of the workbook within a few minutes of receiving it. In another year of Elementary school, I was told 'parasol' wasn't a word even though I knew better. Eventually, I was identified as a gifted individual. The best two years of my life followed, filled with great field trips and unique opportunities. But after elementary school, it was as if giftedness 'wasn't a thing'. I was no longer the special one in class whom the teachers knew they could rely on to help with the other kids. I was no longer the one who was allowed free time to read what I wanted to. Instead, I was the troublemaker kid. I was the 'smart, but just doesn't show it' kid. I was at the end of my rope.

It took two years after dropping out of that torturer's funhouse that is high school to find out the true source of my struggles. The American education system is an extremely anti-gifted environment. Only the lucky few of us who have supportive parents make it through. And even then, it's typically through alternative or non-traditional schooling.

[johng]

The worst experience is when your teacher accuses you of cheating to the point of making you cry just because her own mind limitations. Well, you, as a gifted individual, will never forget such event.

[shettypratik]

Brilliant speech I wish I was fortunate enough to have such a wonderful person in my life

[liyahhlii]

In grade school I would finish my work within minutes waiting for my classmates to catch up I often found myself bored and already aware of the knowledge they were trying to teach me, I thought it was a normal thing until I got myself in trouble on purpose one day and I got sent to detention. While I was there I was talking to my teacher and she started asking me a lot of questions & I was very happy to be talking to her because she seemed to understand me. After that day she called my mom and told me I should be put into a gifted class. I was like girl why do I need to be put in gifted & she just explained that my mind was very intelligent for a 7 year old. Even to this day I’m 19 people often mistaken me for being in my late 20’s based off of the way I talk and have wisdom. Still to this day I’m not sure as to how I became gifted but my mom even moved me to a different state to try to help train my mind and grow my giftedness. I played sports played instruments learned a different language, etc. but I still never found what I loved to do until I turned 18 and started doing YouTube

[satsukynolife]

3:57 - 4:05
That's it, that's the story of my life
That girl described my existence in a few words

The things with gifted people is that so many people have this stereotype of the genius anime kid but in reality there are so many different types of gifted people.
I met a bunch of them and we all look so similar and different at the same time
Knowing that some gifted people are indeed little know it all with good grades, I really wish I was that type of gifted kid instead of an hyperactive mess who SHOULD BE STUDYING AT THE MOMENT INSTEAD OF WRITING THIS ALXKFKCOKZKCOZKPCVKALS






































Yeah your just losing your time by reading this

[Dan-udhz]

"I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals."
(Albert Einstein)

[mb]

I've been unravelling my gifted mind since my 20s

[paryanindoeur]

Being "gifted" is like making a down payment on a house, then paying the mortgage for 30 years, and only *after* that you *_might_* be allowed to live in the house... but then again you might not. You have to pay either way, and there is no opting out.

Unfortunately, my parents *never* accepted I was gifted, and still don't. There is some personality conflict there: they tend toward conformist thinking, and are terrified of being exceptional. (Probably an effect of 12 years of pre-Vatican II Catholic School education.) Also, I suspect some pathological attachment (being a first-born son) leading to infantilizing parenting and an unwillingness to allow my personal individuation. (And it does not apply to my siblings.)

I paid a high price up front, and continue to pay for my differentness, and I have yet to find a way to make it work for me, outside university.

[mmmghool]

I was expecting her to bring up capitalism any second lol. great talk still

[stazang]

All children are talented its all about water them correctly @ the right season to get them to bloom. As long as they are born healthy there is no reason they can not be great.

[johntrapani]

The piquant celery premenstrually desert because rice relatively call for a young lumber. reminiscent, careless child

[pizzaboynizzaTV]

I loved her speech...but those hips...multi-talented, lol. Luckily guy that’s catches her...don’t let her go!!!