As with The INFJ Revolution, I picked this book up for the same sort of divination I mentioned there. This might sound arrogant, but I’m a burned out former gifted kid who is generally bored in life. Grad school was stimulating enough for a while, and now that I’ve been in the “real world” for some time, I’m really having a hard time. I want to know about everything and have conversations that deal with high levels of abstraction, but I keep hitting dead ends. Paula Prober’s book is a bit better than Lauren Sapala’s, in part because the author is a licensed therapist who looks outside of herself for greater expertise.

The book is reasonably well structured: Prober begins with some larger topic–multipotentiality, spirituality, social justice, and so in–then illustrates through two case studies from her patients. I definitely see myself in them and wish I could know more.

That’s also the main issue with the book. I want to go for a swim in whatever the author has to share with her readers, but I’m only able to dip my toes in before the beach closes. Luckily for us, Prober does give some recommendations for further reading, but I just wish there was more.