{"id":87561,"date":"2019-02-08T12:22:16","date_gmt":"2019-02-08T20:22:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/are-intellectuals-suffering-a-crisis-of-meaning"},"modified":"2019-02-08T12:22:16","modified_gmt":"2019-02-08T20:22:16","slug":"are-intellectuals-suffering-a-crisis-of-meaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/are-intellectuals-suffering-a-crisis-of-meaning","title":{"rendered":"Are Intellectuals Suffering a Crisis of Meaning?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-intellectuals-suffering-a-crisis-of-meaning.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ignorance is bliss, until it isn\u2019t\u2026,and it becomes experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe fail our most cognitively talented students when we set them up for adult expectations that they must be high achieving, or we don\u2019t help them find their own unique path to self-actualization and contribution to society. In today\u2019s polarized world, with a general lack of nuance and open and honest critical discussions, I also think a very large number of intellectually gifted children are growing up knowing they are bright, but wondering: what for?\u201d<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>What is the relationship between intellectual giftedness and meaning in life?<\/p>\n<ul style=\"padding-bottom:0px;\" class=\"\">\n<li class=\"\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/author\/scott-barry-kaufman\/\">Scott Barry Kaufman<\/a> on February 8, 2019 <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/beautiful-minds\/are-intellectuals-suffering-a-crisis-of-meaning\/\">https:\/\/blogs.scientificamerican.com\/beautiful-minds\/are-int...f-meaning\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ignorance is bliss, until it isn\u2019t\u2026,and it becomes experience. \u201cWe fail our most cognitively talented students when we set them up for adult expectations that they must be high achieving, or we don\u2019t help them find their own unique path to self-actualization and contribution to society. In today\u2019s polarized world, with a general lack of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":501,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/501"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}