As a gifted adult it is important to find your "why"! Meet Ben Koch

Gifted Unleashed

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

Book The Artist’s Wa

Would you like to work with me 1:1 as your gifted and 2e coach? Please send me an email at [e-mail] or find more information about my coaching offer on my website giftedunleashed.com/coaching

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