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Stories & essays

Writing from inside the gifted adult experience.

Honest, first-person stories about how a gifted adult mind actually works — the speed, the intensity, the foresight, the loneliness — told for the Indian reality. New essays added regularly.

India Today cover featuring Kunwer Sachdev among stacks of Su-Kam inverters
Founder essay · Kunwer Sachdev

The Idea Never Stops: A Gifted Founder on Restlessness and the Emotional Blind Spot

From an analogue inverter to a solar online UPS, one milestone was never enough. I was never bored of life — only ever bored of what I'd already built. It took a divorce to show me what that pattern was hiding.

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Kunwer Sachdev with his engineering team
Founder essay · Kunwer Sachdev

The Gift and the Gap: Why Brilliant Minds Struggle to Connect

The invisible cost of gifted-adult impatience — how urgency, intimidation and a broken translation layer stall brilliant ideas, and how learning patience changed everything for me as a leader.

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A gifted grown-up at his desk — writing, thinking
Research insights · Dr Inderbir Kaur Sandhu

What Happens to Gifted Children When They Grow Up?

Decades of longitudinal research now give us a clearer answer than either the anxious or the optimistic myths. A psychologist's reading of what the evidence actually says — and what it means for parents.

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The Su-Kam Chic — the world's first plastic-body inverter
Founder essay

I Killed My Own Best-Seller: A Gifted Founder's Story

The plastic Chic inverter still worked after its body had dissolved away. To customers, toughness; to me, danger — and a window into how a gifted adult mind actually works.

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Kunwer Sachdev, founder of Gifted Grownups
Founder's story

I Discovered I Was Gifted at 47

From a government school in Punjabi Bagh to building Su-Kam — and finally finding the word "gifted." The story behind why Gifted Grownups exists.

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