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Burnout: A Look Back
A recent realization
There has been a trend on social media recently on of those of us identified early in life as “Gifted & Talented” speaking on how in some ways it hurt more than it ever helped.
This expectation of greatness can be debilitating in ways many of us did not have the vocabulary yet to describe.
A friend of mine recently reposted a Facebook post sharing this tweet:
As a young girl I was always so eager to learn new information. I would ask my mother questions constantly, one after another, and to her credit she ALWAYS answered or found the answer if she couldn’t respond immediately.
I was around 5 and attending a morning Kindergarten class at the time. I remember one weekend asking a series of questions about “what things were made of.” I asked her about ketchup (tomatoes), and glass (sand — my mom actually explained that the Phoenicians first developed glass via heating sand, even though through more research it has been discovered that it was who first created glass).
Upon returning to school, a few students were selected to go into another room across the hall…
