In "Towards a systemic theory of gifted education", Ziegler and Phillipson offer a useful critique of current research and the current paradigm in gifted education. They provide an interesting and useful merging of systems theory with their actiotope model, and using this paradigm they suggest many fruitful areas for future research. However, the authors disagree with them if they intended to suggest that gifted education should only have one paradigm. In general, the authors believe that social and behavioral science disciplines should be multi-paradigmatic, at least in the current stage of development. Nonetheless, at a meta-theoretical-level, the article offers an important "vision" for connecting many current theories and practices. In this commentary, the authors will offer a few categories and areas of research that they think will complement what Ziegler and Phillipson have provided.