The Zebra and Friendship A true friend is not one who looks on your suffering with sorrow, but one who looks on your happiness without envy. My family, my loved ones, my friends, my colleagues. All these people are an integral part of my life. They help me to build myself up, to question myself …
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“What is well conceived must be clearly stated”. Nicolas Boileau Understanding the psychology of HPI and their behaviors Also known as zebra, atypical intelligence, or more commonly as gifted, precocious child, more recently high potential, HPI, high intellectual potential or intellectually precocious child. The English version, gifted, comes from the root gift . At Suivez …
Tell me, Auntie, what is a zebra? Alice, my teenage goddaughter, asked me this question one Christmas when she was 11 years old while I was writing an article on my blog. How to explain without pretension, what is a gifted person and what it means to be gifted? I find it much easier to …
How I knew I was a zebra Jt’s just over a year since I created Follow the Zebra that I’ve never really explained in a dedicated article how I knew I was gifted. It’s actually quite simple… I took the WAIS IV test (Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale) at a psychologist who specializes in giftedness, i.e. …
Profil atypique kezako? For me, an atypical profile is to the gifted what Venetian blond is to the redhead! This year, I was asked to organize master classes for Bachelor and Master students on the theme of atypical profiles. What is an atypical profile? What / who are we talking about? It’s true that since …
Suivez le zèbre tested for you: how do you say you’re gifted? – How do you tell your colleagues or employer that you are gifted?– How do you explain to your parents that you’re a zebra? – How do you tell your friends that you have high potential? I know how important this subject is …
A zebra and a bulldog – absolute bliss! Yes, we’re zebras! But what about other animals??? Our relationship to human beings, yes! But what’s our relationship, as a gifted person, to living beings in general? It’s impossible to talk about me, my zebra life and my high potential without telling you about Léon, my French …
Why should precocious children remain a priority in France? A few months ago, I read an article from our Quebec friends who talked about ideas for keeping giftedness as an opportunity in Quebec. I thought to myself, why in France does it seem mission impossible to integrate a precocious child(or gifted or high potential or, …
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Life after a relationship with a narcissistic pervert It is impossible to properly appreciate light without knowing darkness.Jean-Paul SARTRE I sincerely believe that the wound inflicted by a relationship with a narcissistic pervert reveals something within us. At the moment when something breaks, when we have this revelation that pushes us to say stop and …
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Why do HPIs and narcissistic perverts attract each other? Over the years of my life and research, I’ve come to realize that when you’re a zebra, you tend to be fascinated by narcissistic perverts. To prevent this from happening again, I decided to try and understand our relationship and our role as a high-potential profile …
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