Still called “gifted”, “intellectually precocious” or “zebras”, the High Intellectual Potential (HPI) arouse as many fantasies as jealousy.
However, despite an intelligence quotient (evaluated using a psychometric test carried out by a psychologist) greater than or equal to 130, their brain size is not greater than average.
It doesn't spark.
It doesn't boil either!
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Schematically, the brain of an HPI compared to a normal brain is a bit like two computers with the same software and therefore the same functions, but with a much more powerful computer, with more memory and connected to the fiber for HPI while the other is a slightly older model connected to ADSL
", illustrates Jeanne Siaud-Facchin, clinical psychologist, author of several books on HPI including
L'enfant surdoué, , help him succeed
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Too smart to be happy?
, (ed. Odile Jacob) and founder of the Cogito'Z centers, specialized…
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