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Scott Barry Kaufman

출생: June 03, 1979 – Penn Wynne, Pennsylvania, United States

Scott Barry Kaufman is a cognitive psychologist and author whose work explores intelligence, creativity, self-actualization, and human potential. He is known for books including Ungifted, Wired to Create, and Transcend, and for bringing psychological research to broad audiences through essays, lectures, and The Psychology Podcast.

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Scott Barry Kaufman’s career grew out of an experience of being underestimated. As a child with an auditory learning disability, he spent time in special education and later described those years as the beginning of his lifelong question: how much potential goes unseen when schools mistake difference for deficiency? A teacher in ninth grade helped redirect his self-concept, and that shift became a durable turning point. He went on to study psychology and human-computer interaction at Carnegie Mellon, earned an M.Phil. in experimental psychology at Cambridge as a Gates Cambridge Scholar, and completed a Ph.D. in cognitive psychology at Yale. From the start, his work centered less on ranking people than on widening the idea of what intelligence and talent can be.

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It’s time for a more dynamic conceptualization of potential that takes into account each person’s unique package of personal characteristics, dreams, passions, goals, and development
-Bio
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Just find a way to sign the damn paper!
-Commencement Speech
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I’m a writer. There, I said it
-I’m a writer. There, I said it
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Growth is a direction, not a destination
-Sailboat Metaphor
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Potential is a moving target dependent on a variety of factors, including engagement
-My Quest to Understand Human Intelligence
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But we don’t have standardized minds
-There’s a Way to Unlock Human Potential – but It’s Not Standardized Testing
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I’m always happy to have my ideas challenged and my worldview expanded
-Beautiful Minds: The Next Generation
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While safety is crucial, let’s not neglect our higher possibilities
-Transcend has arrived!
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Mindlessly setting and efficiently achieving goals will not, by itself, make you happy, healthy, or fulfilled
-How to Be an Optimal Human
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The need to matter—to feel valued, appreciated, and important to other people—is one of the strongest and most universal needs in the human need repertoire
-The Excessive Need to Matter

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"Scott Barry Kaufman is one of my favorite thinkers about the psychology of getting better and growing as a person"

Ryan Holiday

"Synthesizing Maslow’s wisdom with modern research, Scott Barry Kaufman takes our understanding of the good life to higher planes"

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"Leading cognitive scientist Scott Barry Kaufman gives us insights and actionable strategies to successfully rise above this mentality"

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"Scott Barry Kaufman is the new generation’s leading voice in humanistic psychology, a modern-day Abraham Maslow"

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"Scott Barry Kaufman reminds us all of our innate capacity to grow from the challenges we face, even big ones"

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Martin Seligman

"Scott Barry Kaufman revivifies the wisdom of humanistic psychology for a new millennium"

Steven Pinker

"Scott Barry Kaufman has written the masterful guide we all need to navigate the chaos"

Tasha Eurich

"Scott Barry Kaufman is the leading researcher who I’m watching for the next paradigm on how the creative mind works"

Peter Sims

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