Tuesday, February 13, 2007
gifted learner/gifted doer
This is a really interesting article that articulates a lot of the stuff I have tried to say in the past about my own designation as a gifted child. The very short version is that being a precocious child in a particular field is not a good predictor of success or achievement in that field as an adult. There is a myth in our culture that someone who is a genius as a child will be a super-genius as an adult, but the reality seems to be that most "genius children" turn out just okay as adults.
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