No matter how brilliant, humans are still social creatures who absolutely require connections to other people. While it is certainly reasonable to teach them to present their views with tolerance and care, it is also important to preserve their sense of what's right. Gifted children are usually perfectionists. On the one hand, perfectionism means they are motivated to work toward mastery and they earn pleasure from achievement. On the other hand, it means they are unforgiving of themselves, they resist learning from failure, and they have great difficulty going backwards.
Perfectionism contributes to pessimistic beliefs, feelings, and actions.
This is a powerful impulse which prevents learning the valuable lesson of redoing, starting again, reversing, or regrouping. Perfectionism is potent. Perfectionists produce better work, they get better grades, they get enormous positive feedback. Perfectionists also have a markedly higher suicide rate . Perhaps because in many ways, it is absolutely true.