Ich groove grade auf talentdevelop.com rum. Dort ist eine Checklist zum Test von Hochbegabung. Enjoy!


Bist du ein guter Problemlöser?
Kannst du dich über eine lange Zeit konzentrieren?
Bist du ein Perfektionist?

Bist du bei deinen Interessen beharrlich?
Bist du ein eifriger Leser?
Hast du eine lebendige Vorstellungskraft?

Machen dir Puzzlespiele Spaß?
Verbindest du oft scheinbar unzusammenhängende Ideen?
Genießt du Paradoxon?

Setzt du dir selbst hohe Standards?
Hast du eine gute Langzeiterinnerung?
Nimmst du stark Anteil?

Hast du eine andauernde Neugier?
Hast du einen excellenten Sinn für Humor?
Bist du ein wacher Beobachter?

Hast du eine Affinität für Mathematik?
Brauchst du Zeit zum Nachsinnen?
Suchst du nach einem Sinn in deinem Leben?

Bist du dir Dingen bewusst, die Andere nicht erkennen?
Bist du von Wörtern fasziniert?
Bist du sehr einfühlsam?
Hast du eine starke moralische Überzeugung?

Fühlst du dich oft nicht mit anderen Verbunden?
Bist du scharfsinnig oder einfühlsam?
Hinterfragst du oft Regeln und Autoritäten?

Hast du eine organisierte Sammlung?
Blühst du im Wettbewerb auf?
Hast du außergewöhnliche Fähigkeiten und Defizite?

Lernst du neue Dinge schnell?
Fühlst du dich von deinen vielen Interessen/Fähigkeiten überwältigt?
Hast du sehr viel Energie?

Trittst du oft gegen Ungerechtigkeit ein?
Fühlst du dich von deiner Kreativität geleitet?
Liebst du Ideen und diskutierst leidenschaftlich?

Warst du ein deiner Kindheit weiterentwickelt als Andere?
Hast du ungewöhnliche Ideen oder Sichtweisen?
Bist du eine komplexe Person?

Wenn 75% dieser Charakteristika auf dich passen, bist du wahrscheinlich ein begabter Erwachsener.


Ich hab alle, bis auf "Nimmst du stark Anteil?", mit Ja beantwortet. Das ich hochbegabt bin weiß ich schon lange, deswegen bin ich jetzt nicht grade aus dem Häuschen, aber antwortet bei diesen Fragen nicht Jeder fast immer mit 'Ja'?

Nehmen wir mal die letzte Frage: "Bist du eine komplexe Person?"
Ich kenne eine Menge Menschen die sich für komplex halten.
Das sind sie.... NICHT, aber ganz gewaltig NICHT!

What is intelligence, anyway?

When I was in the army, I received the kind of aptitude test that all soldiers took and, against a normal of 100, scored 160. No one at the base had ever seen a figure like that, and for two hours they made a big fuss over me.

(It didn't mean anything. The next day I was still a buck private with KP - kitchen police - as my highest duty.)

All my life I've been registering scores like that, so that I have the complacent feeling that I'm highly intelligent, and I expect other people to think so too.

Actually, though, don't such scores simply mean that I am very good at answering the type of academic questions that are considered worthy of answers by people who make up the intelligence tests - people with intellectual bents similar to mine?

For instance, I had an auto-repair man once, who, on these intelligence tests, could not possibly have scored more than 80, by my estimate. I always took it for granted that I was far more intelligent than he was.

Yet, when anything went wrong with my car I hastened to him with it, watched him anxiously as he explored its vitals, and listened to his pronouncements as though they were divine oracles - and he always fixed my car.

Well, then, suppose my auto-repair man devised questions for an intelligence test.

Or suppose a carpenter did, or a farmer, or, indeed, almost anyone but an academician. By every one of those tests, I'd prove myself a moron, and I'd be a moron, too.

In a world where I could not use my academic training and my verbal talents but had to do something intricate or hard, working with my hands, I would do poorly.

My intelligence, then, is not absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest as an arbiter of such matters.

Consider my auto-repair man, again.

He had a habit of telling me jokes whenever he saw me.

One time he raised his head from under the automobile hood to say: "Doc, a deaf-and-mute guy went into a hardware store to ask for some nails. He put two fingers together on the counter and made hammering motions with the other hand.

"The clerk brought him a hammer. He shook his head and pointed to the two fingers he was hammering. The clerk brought him nails. He picked out the sizes he wanted, and left. Well, doc, the next guy who came in was a blind man. He wanted scissors. How do you suppose he asked for them?"

Indulgently, I lifted by right hand and made scissoring motions with my first two fingers.

Whereupon my auto-repair man laughed raucously and said, "Why, you dumb jerk, He used his voice and asked for them."

Then he said smugly, "I've been trying that on all my customers today." "Did you catch many?" I asked. "Quite a few," he said, "but I knew for sure I'd catch you."

"Why is that?" I asked. "Because you're so goddamned educated, doc, I knew you couldn't be very smart."

And I have an uneasy feeling he had something there.

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Der Witz ist der totale Bringer lol

CLEARWATER - Shawn Lonsdale, whose one-man crusade against Scientology made him a public enemy of the church, was found dead at his home over the weekend in an apparent suicide. He was 39.

Police discovered Lonsdale's body at 12:20 p.m. Saturday after neighbors reported a foul odor. They found a garden hose stretched from the exhaust pipe of Lonsdale's car into a window of his home at 510 N Lincoln Ave., according to Clearwater police spokeswoman Elizabeth Daly-Watts.

Daly-Watts said there were no signs of foul play, and police found what appeared to be a suicide note. It was not immediately available.

The medical examiner's office said the official cause of death is pending toxicology reports.

It was a lonely end for a man who emerged out of nowhere in 2006 as a thorn in the side of the Church of Scientology.

For a few months in mid to late 2006, Lonsdale stood alone in downtown Clearwater beside a sandwich board that read "Cult Watch" in the heart of Scientology's religious headquarters.

Videocamera in hand, he taped hours and hours of footage: Scientology buildings, church staffers walking the streets, security guards watching his movements and verbal confrontations with Scientologists. He then edited them into a "pseudo-documentary" about Scientology that eventually aired on local cable television.

Lonsdale, who was never a Scientologist, was an odd nemesis. He had no connection to the church before arguing with a Scientologist over redevelopment issues at a Clearwater City Council meeting.

But the self-described loner stepped into his new role with enthusiasm. At night, he dropped fliers on the doorsteps of downtown businesses. On his lunch break, he parked his car across the street from the church's cafeteria with posters in his window that claimed people could find free versions of secret church texts on the Internet. He even picked church-related documents from piles of trash in front of a Scientology-owned business and posted some of the documents online.

The Church of Scientology and some its members fought back. They hired a private investigator to look into Lonsdale's background and found two misdemeanor convictions for lewd and lascivious conduct, both related to public sex with men, in 1999 and 2000.

They called Lonsdale's employer at a title company and his landlord and said that Lonsdale was a religious bigot, possibly dangerous.

In the fall of 2006, the church subpoenaed Lonsdale for a deposition, contending he was an agent of an anti-Scientology group that was legally barred from protesting in certain places downtown. Attorney Luke Lirot, who has battled Scientology in the past, came to Lonsdale's aid.

"I found him to be quite affable and truly a very intelligent man," Lirot said in an interview Monday. "I certainly hope that a very thorough investigation is conducted."

In the last year, though, the confrontation between Lonsdale and the Church of Scientology seemed to have run its course.

Lonsdale let his anti-Scientology Web site lapse. He posted less and less on anti-Scientology blogs. Church spokeswoman Pat Harney said it had been months since the church heard from Lonsdale.

Randy Payne, a former Scientologist, said Lonsdale found it impossible to be a full-time church critic and make a living.

Payne said that he last spoke to Lonsdale two months ago, and that Lonsdale had found steady work on the night shift at a local company, stocking shelves. He talked about going back to school and getting a private investigator's license.

"He was getting on with his life," Payne said. "He had every reason to live."

Landlord Joe Critchley said Lonsdale was an ideal tenant: He paid the $650 rent on time every month and he kept the place clean. The last time they talked, Feb. 1 or Feb. 2, Lonsdale seemed fine. "He would be one of the last people I would expect to commit suicide," Critchley said. "But you never know."

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DIE SCHEISS 'APRA' STECKT DA MIT DRIN!