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Category Archives: The Life of the Mind

  1. Escaping the Cage of Intellectualism

    March 15th, 2020 by Benita Jeanelle | Issue 11: A Look in the Mirror, The Life of the Mind |

    Benita thought her intellect would keep her safe. Then it failed her spectacularly. Was she using it wrong – or was there something she was missing?

  2. Why a Novel? Long-Form Fiction as Catharsis for the Intellect

    January 16th, 2020 by Maxwell Olin Massa | Finding Your Tribe, Issue 10: In Search of Connection, The Life of the Mind |

    Max Massa was desperate for a way to put overexcitable mind to use for the world—or, failing that, merely to connect with other people who cared ideas. Could he rely on his imagination to make the product of his intellect more meaningful to others?

  3. Inhibited, Provoking, Despairing, or Thriving? An Interview with Sonja Falck

    January 16th, 2020 by Jessie Mannisto | Finding Your Tribe, Issue 10: In Search of Connection, The Life of the Mind |

    Are there specific relationship challenges that stem from having a high IQ? Through her research and consulting work, Dr. Sonja Falck developed a model that suggests three general types of relational struggles for high IQ adults—and one broad way in which bright people can thrive.

  4. What Goes Into Free Thought? An Interview with Marta Lenartowicz of the School of Thinking

    January 16th, 2020 by Jessie Mannisto | Finding Your Tribe, Issue 10: In Search of Connection, Positive Disintegration, The Life of the Mind |

    Think you know how to think? The brand new School of Thinking at Vrije Universiteit Brussel is designed to teach students precisely this. Dr. Marta Lenartowicz sat down with Third Factor Magazine to tell us just what the School does—and offers you a few ideas to of areas to focus your own thinking, even if you can’t make it to Belgium for class.

  5. Practicing Parrhesia: Fearless Speech for Agreeable Overthinkers

    December 4th, 2019 by Jessie Mannisto | Courage, Doing the Thing, Issue 13.5: Bonus Articles, The Life of the Mind, The Search for the Higher Path |

    Socrates and the Buddha have some suggestions for you highly agreeable types who can’t quite bring yourself to speak up about something important.

  6. Life in the Rainforest: Sensitivity, Intensity, and Giftedness

    November 5th, 2019 by Jessie Mannisto | Finding Your Tribe, Issue 9: The Intense Mind, The Life of the Mind |

    Paula Prober coined the term “rainforest mind” to describe those gifted, complex individuals she works with as a psychotherapist. And though having a rainforest mind may be uncommon, rainforest minds generally have some commonalities, as she explained when she sat down with us.

  7. Maturing Through Creativity: A Conceptual Model of Creativity Development in Young People

    November 5th, 2019 by Krystyna C. Laycraft | Issue 9: The Intense Mind, Positive Disintegration, The Life of the Mind |

    How does creativity contribute to adolescents’ psychosocial growth? Here Krystyna Laycraft shares her doctoral research on the subject and shows why the theory of positive disintegration is particularly relevant to the highly creative.

  8. Regulate Overexcitability to Empower Your Voice – Part II: The Mind

    November 5th, 2019 by Laura Stavinoha | Issue 9: The Intense Mind, Positive Disintegration, The Life of the Mind |

    Voice coach Laura Stavinoha explains how to keep your intense mind from running away with you while you speak, leaving your audience in its dust.

  9. Cancel Culture and the Intellectually Intense

    November 5th, 2019 by Jessie Mannisto | Courage, Doing the Thing, Issue 9: The Intense Mind, Positive Disintegration, The Life of the Mind |

    It’s always been hard to be a questioner, but today’s political atmosphere—combined with digital mobbing tools—have made it harder than ever. What’s a good-faith questioner to do?

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