New Research from 50,000 Interviews Show People are Hard-Wired from Birth with Recurring Patterns of Giftedness

Indianapolis, IN (PRWEB) November 13, 2007 -- The recently formed Giftedness Institute, based in Indianapolis, Indiana, has announced a new report about the controversial findings of Arthur F. Miller. The findings are published in a new book entitled DESIGNED FOR LIFE (from LIFE(n) Media, Charlotte, NC).

DESIGNED FOR LIFE (see excerpts at www.arthurfmiller.com) presents a series of extraordinary findings from nearly 50 years of research studying the nature and behavior of individuals when they were intensely pursuing an activity of unsurpassed personal value. The findings conclusively support the proposition that every person is born for a purpose, though few people realize they are gifted with the desire and the power to achieve it.

Without exception, in tens of thousands of people studied one-at-a-time, author Arthur F. Miller and his research team at People Management, Inc. (www.peoplemanagement.org) found each person had been endowed with a unique pattern of motivated giftedness which appeared hardwired, and drove the person to achieve in ways that clearly reveal a purpose for every life studied.

Based on this rigorous and systematic phenomenological research, and using an idiographic paradigm, the author and colleagues were able to develop a science of persons which is predictive, comprehensive and explanatory -- a feat which psychology has been seeking since the late 19th century, but failed to achieve because it denied the uniqueness of each person.

"This work fills a void which has been largely ignored," said Paul Brooks, Chairman of The Giftedness Institute. "Its message is intensely practical, yet thoroughly grounded in documented research."

"What is so remarkable is the emergence of designed giftedness in contrast to systems of education, work and religion that consider people as infinitely malleable and available to be shaped and reshaped by their teachers, their managers, and their clergy," says Miller, who also serves as co-founder of The Giftedness Institute.

In contrast to the conclusions of Darwinian theorists, and the assumptions of what Miller calls "The Becoming Culture," this book outlines a new way to learn, to work, and to worship. DESIGNED FOR LIFE is a tour de force introduction to our indomitable, unrequited souls - and helps address our universal identity crisis. The book has been critically reviewed and represents a significant clarion call.

"Bacon foresaw a glorious future for man through science pushing back the effects of the Fall," noted Charles Thaxton, Ph,D., Co-author of The Mystery of Life's Origin and The Soul of Science. "Miller sees that future with the giftedness of man identified, harnessed, and directed for good in the world."

The Giftedness Institute has been formed with a seed funding grant from The Helixx Group (www.helixxgroup.com), to help individuals and organizations apply the implications of this ground-breaking research.

ABOUT ARTHUR F. MILLER

Kidded by his associates as a 'Johnny Appleseed', Art has co-written four books on innate giftedness and has given seminars in many countries. He has written articles for AMA's International Digest and International Forum, Institute of Personnel Management (UK), American Society of Training and Development, College Placement Council, Alban Institute, and The Conference Board, among others. He is best known for a near half-a-century odyssey researching and promoting the phenomenon of giftedness as innate in human nature. Art and his colleagues have studied the achievement history of more than 50,000 people one-at-a-time. Based on this rigorous phenomenological research, and the absolute consistency of their findings, he developed a System for Identifying Motivated Abilities [SIMA® as the centerpiece of his lifework.

ABOUT THE GIFTEDNESS INSTITUTE

Co-founded by Art Miller, Paul Brooks and Jim Van Eerden, The Giftedness Institute is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization that was created to extend the study of individual giftedness to result in a "science of persons" that accurately reflects the unique design of each of us. The Institute does this by organizing web resources, issuing publications, and managing special convenings.

ABOUT THE HELIXX GROUP, LLC

The Helixx Group, based in Indianapolis, specializes in providing agency and merchant banking services for high impact business and social entrepreneurs. Helixx provides both lifework planning services and investment banking services that are based around the individual person.

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