"You speak too fast".
"You don't do anything like the others."
"I was too tiring, too energetic, too quirky."
All her childhood, Marion heard that she was…too much.
“I remember naps in kindergarten moping in my bed;
the annoyance of the teachers at seeing me raise my finger ten times a day.
So, when I was identified as HPI, at 35, I breathed a big sigh of relief...".
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“We are asked to enter the frame”
Live and think differently?
This is the daily life of so-called "high potential" women, whose specificity is to display an IQ of more than 130. When, like them, we question the world 24 hours a day, inevitably, we come to "challenger" the norm,” says Fanny Marais, a coach specializing in high potentials (1).
“But we live in an ultra-normative world.
From an early age, we are asked to be docile, kind, pretty… To fit into the frame.
Suffice to say that, for the HPI, it is a double penalty”.
This sense of disconnect is often what leads them to cross the…
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