Ben Koch am an entrepreneur, educator, coach, healer, and mindfulness expert with 20 years of meditation experience. As co-founder and CEO of an education company based in Dallas, he has sought for ways to merge his role in the educational revolution with his passion for self-development, healing modalities, and practices that help one find and align with their deeper life purpose (IKIGAI).

TAKEAWAYS FROM THIS EPISODE:

• Gifted adults usually have gifted kids
• The label “gifted” doesn’t matter as much, it’s the characteristics and the unique needs which are important
• A lot of gifted kids slip through the cracks of being identified in childhood
• Gifted children and adults feel and process differently
• Indicators of being gifted (but not exclusively):
  • Feeling a little bit out of whack with mainstream thinking
  • Not feeling comfortable in traditional scripted conversations
  • Feeling like you have to hold back your authentic self in fear to provoke or how out of place it might feel
  • Fear of your thoughts, intuitions and deep emotional sensitivities
  • Giftedness in one word: Intensity! Emotional, intellectual and/or spiritual intensity
• There is a cultural meme that giftedness equals academic achievement
• Traditional IQ tests measure 2 types of intelligences: verbal and quantitative intelligence
• Ambivert is the term used to describe someone who is sometimes introverted, sometimes extroverted depending on the situation
• Gifted kids, as well as gifted adults, need intellectual / idea peers because of their asynchronous development
• Asynchronicity is a sign of giftedness
• Gifted knows gifted: There is a sense of acceptance, of acknowledgment and a feeling of belonging and “being home” as we can mirror each other
• Profoundly gifted kids have extremely unique needs
• The importance for gifted people is to find and live a life of purpose! 
• IKIGAI means “reason for being”
• Finding your IKIGAI takes inner work and is a lifelong process
• Create a purpose statement and list your why, what and how
• Meditation and mindfulness is a powerful tool for the gifted
• Gifted people can see the wrongs, the hypocrisy in the world, the injustices and can get overwhelmed by it
• The psychological, neurological and physiological benefit of mindfulness practise has been documented by scientific research
• It is important for gifted adult to have self compassion and self empathy

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

NuMinds: website,  facebook Podcast

Ben's Links and personal website

Book Living with Intensity by Susan Daniels and Michael M. Piechowski

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