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I did a research project on legendary child prodigies and found that the secret sauce was having parents who provided them with the best musical education possible and connections to a professional network that gave them opportunities That’s it that’s the secret, it’s just access

All of them, according to contemporary accounts, had the normal traits of bright kids as laid out in modern child psychology texts. What turned them into “geniuses” was their environment, ie parents who seized on these elements of basic giftedness and cultivated them with a single-minded zeal

Wheeeeeee starting to get replies from guys going “but if you give a kid access without talent then they won’t become great” and that is 1) so fkn obvious, guys, good job, and 2) irrelevant if the dataset you’re working with is talented kids. On this topic we are operating with talent being a given!

Thesis: WA Mozart was a tremendously talented kid who only became “Mozart” bc his dad created the conditions for him to succeed Reply guys: oooOOOOH but what if a kid ISN’T talented, then they CAN’T become Mozart even with the right conditions and your thesis is wrong! I am very smart!