Elaine Aron

other words, expand your use of your giftedness beyond producing the most noticed ideas at work. Use it to attain greater self-insight and to gain wisdom about human beings in groups and organizations.

Training situations can be very overarousing because you tend to perform worse when being observed or when overaroused in any other way—for example, being given too much information at once, having too many people around talking or straining to learn, imagining all the dire consequences of failing to remember something.

On the other hand, you may be having to come to terms with a vocation that was often blocked by other responsibilities or by your culture’s failure to appreciate you. If you can reach a place of peace about this, then you may well be the wisest of us all.