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Bodiless Gifts.
Title: Bodiless Gifts.
Category: Social Sciences / Psychology
Details: Words: 1088 | Pages: 4.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Bodiless Gifts.
Bodiless Gifts
"What a paradox, what a cruelty, what an irony, there is here- that inner life and imagination may lie dull and dormant unless released, awakened, by an intoxication or disease"
A human poses the ability to develop specific talents in order to compensate for a deficiency in other areas. In an extreme view, Oliver Sacks explains how he, a neurologist and psychiatrist, witnesses these talents brought out by a disease. Many individuals, overlooked …showed first 75 words of 1088 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 1088 total…forced them to develop a counter talent. How many others such as these case studies are in existence, unrealized by the world, and how many other people have superior gifts that we as a society overlook simply because a person's illness is the predominate feature of their lives? As Sacks demonstrated, all humans have the ability to develop hidden talents to compensate for a deficiency in another area, no matter how serious that defiance is.
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