Exceptionally+Gifted

=Common Characteristics of Exceptionally Gifted Individuals= (Clark, 2002, p. 65)
 * Extraordinary speed in information processing.
 * Rapid and thorough comprehension of the whole idea of concept.
 * An unusual ability to perceive essential elements and underlying structures and patterns in relationships and ideas.
 * Need for precision in thinking and expression, resulting in need to correct errors and argue extensively.
 * Ability to relate a broad range of ideas and synthesize commonalities among them.
 * High degree of ability to think abstractly that develops early.
 * Appreciation of complexity.
 * Ability to learn in an integrative, intuitively nonlinear manner.
 * Extraordinary degree of intellectual curiosity.
 * Unusual capacity for memory.
 * Long concentration span.
 * Fascination with ideas and words.
 * Extensive vocabulary.
 * Ability to perceive many sides of an issue.
 * Argumentativeness.
 * Advanced visual and motor skills.
 * Ability from an early age to think in metaphors and symbols.
 * Ability to visualize models and systems.
 * Ability to learn in great intuitive leaps.
 * Highly idiosyncratic interpretations of events.
 * Awareness of detail.
 * Unusual intensity and depth of feeling.
 * High degree of emotional sensitivity.
 * Highly developed morals and ethics and early concern for moral and existential issues.
 * Unusual and early insight into social and moral issues.
 * Ability to empathetically understand and relate to ideas and other people.
 * Extraordinarily high energy level.
 * Need for the world to be logical and fair.
 * Conviction of correctness or personal ideas and beliefs.