BRAND NEW: The Outlier Mind: Flourishing with a Highly Gifted Brain OUT NOW!! (also free with membership to all Outlier Communities such as HARVEST and the ongoing The Joyful Outlier private community)

I believe living in true joy is your birthright.

Restoring joy to those with a highly gifted brain requires a different path than what works for the other 98%.

People who are born with a highly gifted brain have what I call "outlier minds." We make up less than 2% of people.

As outliers, we have a rare underlying architecture that virtually none of us were taught about and rarely considered in any fashion across a variety of scientific, behavioral, and spiritual perspectives on optimal living. 

We need specific lifestyle designs as a result, and we need them to be personalized to our individual makeup as well.

OUTLIER LIVING is a collection of resources to help you with this.

Our foundation rests in my book, The Outlier Mind, which provides the complete architecture and how to understand and refine life with our neurotype.

This work decodes the gifted outlier and provides understanding of the pathways for expanding your joy and living in true flourishing.

The book is available to purchase as a stand-alone item to ensure it is as accessible as possible.

It is also provided for free inside small group and private 1:1 spaces designed for Outlier Living.

Coming soon, our Outlier Living resources will grow to include a workbook/journal companion to the book and a quarterly print magazine. 

My personal underlying design as an outlier means that I flourish when I have certain avenues for creating emergent and beautiful work to share, which is one reason for my offerings of new live groups and publications that expand over time versus remaining static.

But I also need a certain degree of structure for my work in order to keep it correctly coalesced as it progresses. 

That structure cannot be too confining, as I, like most of us outliers, rebel under the wrong degree of constraint. This is nuanced work to discern for you as an individual and also changes based on life phase and even within smaller subsets of output or content types. 

That structure for me now exists in my designs for the umbrella of my current and future Outlier Living body of work and offerings, and I could not be more excited and delighted about having finally arrived here!

Creating The Outlier Mind book has challenged me in every way possible! It's been wildly fun and intensely difficult. 

It is a distillation of my decades of study and tens of thousands of hours of live work as a guide to other outliers like us. The book is approx 20,000 words or 100 pages depending on format. 

Start with the book directly or choose from the additional offerings below to dive deeper.

I'd love to hear from you! CONTACT MELANIE

In Joy,

Melanie
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OUTLIER LIVING: HARVEST

starts Friday, Oct 2, 2026

Outlier Living is the lifestyle for people with highly gifted brains to fully FLOURISH 

This fall, we gather to refine our HARVEST

We will meet on Fridays, Oct 2, - Nov 20
at 1pm Pacific for eight weeks
with a private online community space
open through the end of November.

Registration includes a free copy of
The Outlier Mind: Flourishing with a Highly Gifted Brain
and other surprise bonuses.

Where are we harvesting prematurely?

What specific aspects of the gifted brain neurotype lie behind our difficulties with the gap between vision and execution (this is not ADHD), leaving potentially ready harvest to wither on the vine?

What have we learned from the harvest to inform our lifestyle moving ahead?

Dialing in our core architecture of these rare brains to improve our quality of life and creative output* with ease.

(*creative output applies regardless of your modes of creation: paint, spreadsheets, programming, woodworking, words, people service, cooking, etc).

This five-phase cycle is the most useful way to apply personalized tactics that liberate the misunderstood core architecture of the highly gifted brain: CREATE:TRANSMIT.

In HARVEST, you will receive personalized implementation practices, protocols, and tactics for living joyfully with your outlier brain.

There is something so special and so relieving when gathered with people who actually get you. 

Most outliers move through life never feeling fully perceived and received, even when surrounded by loving family and friends.

This otherness has traveled with us since birth.

In this private Outlier Living group, you can really let your hair down, let your freak flag fly, be your weird, wild, wiggly self! We're here for it!

Bring your delusions of grandeur. 

Resuscitate the long-lost dreams you'd given up on ever harvesting.

This is one place where you won't be "too much."

People who are born with a highly gifted brain have what I call "outlier minds." 

There are various ways to define giftedness. Every human has gifts and it is vital that we uncover and live these gifts.

For our purposes, I am speaking of the specific brain type with which a small subset of the population is born. This outlier brain places you in the top 2% of intellectual and creative potential.

It cannot be learned or taught. It is a birth characteristic, like green eyes which, incidentally, are also seen in only about two percent of the population.

Like extraordinary athletic or musical ability, neurological giftedness cannot be taught, but it can be nurtured or suppressed.

What we crave most deeply is to fully experience clarity about our own true potential in this life and then witness ourselves contributing that potential to the whole.

When our gifts are not being optimally used and shared in a manner that allows them to be used as intended out in the world, we find this incredibly painful and frustrating.

This can be a deep existential pain which those around us don't understand and may find frustrating about us.

Life design for us has to be approached differently than for most people. It’s easy to spend years, decades - indeed, even one’s whole life - working hard to apply the common wisdom and research about effective life design for satisfaction, productivity, happiness, relationship richness, even health, and yet never fully achieve these goals.

As we move into the season of the harvest, this small group will guide you around what you are harvesting, both now, in the past, and in the future.

You'll learn about your own rhythms and modes for creating and harvesting, with which you will improve your discernment for avoiding premature harvesting (impatient fruit pickers, anyone? lol) as well as addressing a highly common challenge for us with completing what we have begun, i.e., the gap between vision and execution. This is not the same as mainstream teaches it.