Starting Points

Gifted and Creative Services Australia hopes the starting points below are useful to you.

Did you know?

It is normal for gifted people to:

• have complex and deep thoughts
• feel intense emotions
• ask lots of questions
• be highly sensitive
• set high standards for themselves
• have strong moral convictions
• feel different & out-of-sync
• be curious
• have a vivid imagination
• question rules or authority
• thrive on challenge
• feel passion and compassion
• have a great deal of energy
• have an unusual sense of humour
• feel outrage at injustice
• look for meaning in life
• feel sad about the state of the world
• feel a spiritual connection to life

If you identify with theseharacteristics, we invite you to explore our web site and discover more about being gifted.

Some starting points...

• Gifted Children
• Gifted Adults
• Emotional Intensity
• Perfectionism
• Moral Awareness
• Visual/Spatial Learners
• Excitabilities
• Introversion
• Underachievement