entelechy

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• To be effective in helping children deal with issues that will develop due to their giftedness, parents need to understand how divergent thinking ability, excitability, sensitivity, perceptiveness, and entelechy impact their lives.

  Academic text (1992)

• The concept of entelechy refers to achieving one's fullest potential in life.

• Yet despite, or perhaps because of, its importance, politics does not develop naturally; it is not the entelechy of the species.

  Academic text (1999)

• Children high in entelechy need specific help in finding true friends.

  Academic text (1992)

• The ability of children high in entelechy to draw helpful people to them results in unlikely friendships.

  Academic text (1992)

• Children high in entelechy, like Lincoln, find the independence, strength of will, and inner spirit to surmount obstacles that would daunt most others.

  Academic text (1992)

• Gifted children with entelechy are highly motivated, single-minded in the pursuit of their own goals, and very strong-willed.

  Academic text (1992)

• Many children high in the trait of entelechy are so strong-willed that they may act in self-defeating ways, becoming trapped in negative interactions with others and needing help in learning to use the strength of will more positively.

  Academic text (1992)

• Five social/emotional traits of giftedness (divergent thinking ability, excitability, sensitivity, perceptiveness, and entelechy) are described, and the specific issues that parents must face to enable their children to reach their full potential are explored.

  Academic text (1992)

• Aristotle believed that entelechy is the realization of a being's true essence.

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