Giftedness and eminence: Clarifying the relationship

Who are outstandingly creative individuals that come to mind in music, sport, psychology, physics, or architecture? Almost everyone can think of someone whom they would label eminent. Some these eminent may be from the past, whereas others still with us. In extant literature, there robust strands research on giftedness and talent, expertise, eminence. However, researchers one strand often do not reference those other strands. The talent development megamodel (TDMM) was developed an integration literature giftedness, eminence, arguing expertise is a point far beyond novice trajectory, eminence reserved for top contributors domain. this paper, we review situating as endpoint which begin gifted identification schools highlight theories support contention. Finally, provide examples several performance production domains highlighting TDMM’s proposed trajectory potential achievement sometimes,