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Appendix B: The Luminous Overexcitability Assessment Questionnaire™ — Mapping Your Developmental Raw Material
An instrument, not an essay: the five overexcitabilities, and how to find out which are yours.
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Kazimierz Dąbrowski named five kinds of heightened response — psychomotor, sensual, intellectual, imaginational and emotional — and argued that they are the raw material development works on rather than symptoms to be managed. A person who cannot sit still, who cries at music, who cannot stop turning a problem over at three in the morning, is not malfunctioning; they are carrying more current than the wiring was designed for.
This is the questionnaire that maps yours, with the scoring, the interpretation, and a plain account of what the result does and does not entitle you to conclude. It is an appendix to the positive disintegration volumes and is most useful read beside them.
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How this book was made. Many volumes in this house were written with machine assistance. That is the author's declared working method, not a thing found out later, and the practice is itself a published paper with a DOI — Externalized Cognition: A Developmental Theory of Human–AI Co-Creation. The argument, the judgement and the name on the cover are the author's.