The book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck (the psychology professor at Stanford mentioned) also offers great insight into this. It is also a very well written book, and if you are into audiobooks, the narrator for this one does a splendid job.

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+1 for "The drama of the gifted child"---my psychiatrist friend recommended it to me, and I learned a lot from it.