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How The Sensitive Thrive In Change

Lillian Skinner
4 min readJul 18, 2024
The Most Sensitive Are The First To Know What Is Coming

You’ve been duped your entire life. That sensitivity you’ve been told to suppress? It’s not a weakness. It’s a the very thing that make you a success if you learn how to use it. And right now, as our world careens towards disaster, it might be our only shot at survival.

The system crushing your spirit isn’t broken. It’s working exactly as designed — keeping you small, compliant, and cut off from your true potential. But we don’t have the luxury of playing small anymore.

Climate catastrophe. Political meltdown. AI poised to outsmart us. We’re facing extinction-level threats, and the old ways of thinking are useless. We need visionaries. We need revolutionaries. We need you — in all your raw, sensitive, intuitive glory.

Forget everything you’ve been told about “success.” Here’s what you need to do instead:

  1. Stop trying to think your way out of feeling. Let the feelings come and wait for the message they have within them. Write it down. Then let your mind catch up. You’ll be shocked how often your body knew the answer before your brain could form the question. This is gifted knowing.
  2. Embrace the big picture. Our system force-feeds details while starving us of context. Practice zooming out. When tackling a problem, resist the urge to immediately dissect it. Sit with the whole. Let your…

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Lillian Skinner
Lillian Skinner

Written by Lillian Skinner

Creative Intelligence Researcher, Savant, Prodigy, 2e, & Somatic Intelligence Expert, Philosopher, Futurist, System Thinker, Equality Advocate, www.GiftedND.com

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