On Your Rainforest Mind

As with The INFJ Revolution, I picked this up for the same sort of divination I mentioned there. This might sound arrogant, but I’m a burned-out former gifted kid who’s 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 in high levels of abstraction, and 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 beyond herself for greater expertise. It’s reasonably well structured: Prober opens each chapter with a larger topic — multipotentiality, spirituality, social justice, and so on — and then illustrates it through two case studies from her patients. I definitely see myself in them, and wish I could know more. That’s also the book’s main problem: I want to go for a swim in whatever the author has to share, but I’m only able to dip my toes in before the beach closes. Luckily she offers some recommendations for further reading — I just wish there were more here.