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What does it mean to be “gifted”? Is it talent? Creativity? Intelligence? A mixture of all three? Is giftedness something you’re born with or can you nurture it? Is it possible to measure and predict giftedness? Our guest today, Dr. Scott Barry Kaufman, has tackled all these questions in his most recent book Ungifted: Intelligence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":195998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[502,156,42388],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-character","category-podcast","category-self-improvement"],"featured_image_urls":{"large":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/57-538x280.png","medium_large":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/57-768x432.png","aom":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/57-372x230.png","reactor-320":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/57-320x180.png","reactor-640":"https:\/\/www.artofmanliness.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/57-640x360.png"},"yoast_head":"\n
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