ABSTRACT
Gifted children are often better at attaining goals than they are at setting them. Being smart kids, many are able to accomplish tasks with little or no struggle. Career selection is seldom easy, but for gifted children the choice of what to be as an adult is made more difficult due to a common affliction: multipotentiality. Although multipotentiality is real and can be aggravating to the point of diminishing one’s spirit to pursue a specific career focus, gifted teens who suffer through it seldom get much sympathy at home or in school. Another vital way to deal directly with multipotentiality is to introduce our child to people who are engaged professionally in careers that hold his interest. Inevitably, some parents will convince a reluctant matriculator to give college a shot for at least a year.
