Redefining Intelligence and Human Potential | Scott Barry Kaufman

Good Life Project

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Education, Wellness, Self-improvement, Midlife, Health & Fitness, Intentional Living, Personal Growth, Living Well, How To

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🗓️ 19 February 2019

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Scott Barry Kaufman (http://scottbarrykaufman.com/) has a Ph.D. from Yale, and an M. Phil from Cambridge and now teaches at Barnard. Not bad for a kid who was labeled as lesser-than, put into special-education and told he didn't have the intelligence to achieve anything significant.

It took a single moment in 9th-grade, where a teacher took note of his innate curiosity and abilities and prompted him to reclaim control over his education and life, for everything to change.

Now an acclaimed psychologist, researcher and professor, Scott embraces a humanistic, integrative approach that takes into account a wide range of human variation– from learning disabilities to intellectual and creative giftedness to introversion to narcissism to twice exceptionality– to help all kinds of minds live a creative, fulfilling, and meaningful life.

Scott writes the weekly Beautiful Minds column for Scientific American, hosts The Psychology Podcast (https://scottbarrykaufman.com/podcast/), and his books (https://scottbarrykaufman.com/books/) include Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined, Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind and, as editor, Twice Exceptional: Supporting and Educating Bright and Creative Students with Learning Difficulties and The Cambridge Handbook of Intelligence.

And, lately, he’s been taking a seriously deep dive into self-actualization and transcendence, getting rare access to Maslow published and private writing that fueled his own research on the key elements what it takes to step more fully into the experience of life.

We explore all of this in today’s wide-ranging conversation.

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0:00.0	So my guest today at Scott Berry Kaufman has a PhD from Yale, an M-Phil from Cambridge,
0:07.8	and now teaches Ed Barnard.
0:09.6	That's not too shabby for a kid who is labeled as lesser than, put into special education
0:14.7	and told he didn't have the intelligence to really achieve anything meaningful in school
0:19.7	or life.
0:20.7	An all-check was a single moment in ninth grade where a teacher of his took note of his
0:24.6	kind of innate curiosity and abilities and prompted him to reclaim control over his
0:29.9	education and eventually life in that moment everything changed.
0:33.4	Now he is and claims psychologist researcher professor, he embraces a kind of a humanistic
0:38.2	integrative approach that really takes into account a wide range of human variation from
0:44.2	learning disabilities to intellectual and creative giftedness to introversion, narcissism,
0:49.3	and something he calls twice exceptionality.
0:52.0	All in the name of helping all kinds of minds live a more creative, more fulfilling, more
0:56.7	meaningful life.
0:57.7	Scott also writes the weekly beautiful minds column for Scientific American.
1:02.1	He hosts the Psychology Podcast which is awesome you should check it out.
1:05.7	He writes his books include Ungifted and Wired to Create to Awesome Reads and lately he's
1:10.4	been taking a series deep dive into self actualization and transcendence, getting rare access
1:16.1	to Maslow's published and private writing that has fueled his own research and identified
1:21.5	the key elements of what it takes to really step more fully into the experience of life.
1:26.6	Super excited to share this wide ranging and eye opening conversation with you.
1:31.6	I'm Jonathan Fields and this is Good Life Project.
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