Free The Gift in You: Discovering New Life Through Gifts Hidden in Your Mind by Caroline Leaf

that knowledge is limited but imagination is not. It is through the powers of imagination that we expand our knowledge.
    Einstein's experiences highlight the inherent limitations of existing paradigms about thinking and learning. They underscore the importance of seeing people as individuals in educational environments and not making judgments about their intelligence and potential based on how well - or how badly - they are able to do a few exercises in a specific time. It also emphasizes how little you can tell about students from just observing their behavior in the classroom.
    It is a bit like when Rabbit went to school. He was so excited that he signed up for all the classes, including swimming lessons. The term started off well and Rabbit was full of passion and enthusiasm. As the term progressed, his grades in hopping, running and jumping were great. However, swimming was a problem, which reflected negatively in his grades. At the end of the term, his teacher commended him on his progress in hopping, running and jumping but was disappointed in his swimming results. She then commented that next term, Rabbit would have to stop running, hopping and jumping lessons and just concentrate on swimming. Well, we can all guess what happened to Rabbit: he drowned.
    This is a powerful and poignant analogy of what is happening out there in the storm-tossed sea of education, therapy and life with teachers, therapists, parents and friends so set on improving our weaknesses that they don't support our strengths.
    Yet the brain is designed in such a way that its strengths support its weaknesses. In fact, the "weaknesses" should not be seen in a negative light at all. They are simply complementary opposites to strengths, giving people their uniqueness. Now isn't that a much more positive and pleasant way of looking at the whole person?
    Yes, it's true. You are truly amazing, and you are about to find out just how marvelously clever you are. To do that, you need to answer some important questions, which include:
What do you like doing best?
What kind of activities appeal to you?
What are you good at?
    Just as importantly, you need to know what type of person you really are - how your brain is wired. These questions need answers if you are really going to change the way you do things, live in your gift and make a difference in your life and the world.
    Now that you know something about the seven different types of thinking - your gift that exists in your brain - it is time to work out your Gift Profile. After that, you can consider the implications of this on your life and, in particular, the way you think and learn.

 
    CHAPTER ELEVEN: {HOW TO COMPLETE THE GIFT PROFILE}
    This Gift Profile has been developed over the past twenty years and is rooted in my theory of Geodesic Learning, which I developed to help understand the science of thought. For schools, businesses, ministries and individuals it has become an extremely useful tool in evaluating the structure of gifting. It is meant to encourage and guide us into realizing that we are all gifted at something, we just have to find it. There is something you can do that no one else can.
    The profile is in a questionnaire format, arranged in seven different categories, each of which represents one of the Seven Pillars that make up your gift. Simply select a "yes" or "no" answer to each question. Circle "yes" if you think the question applies to you. Circle "no" if it does not.
    Some questions may seem ambiguous, in which case you should follow your "gut instinct," circling "yes" or "no" according to your first re- action. Your immediate, instinctive reaction will be the most accurate.
    If you feel that you are gifted in different areas of your life when you are at home, than when you are at the office, you have detected something very interesting at the heart of your gifting.
    Each of us has a true-self, and each one of us also has been influenced by our environment and circumstances,