11-08-2006, 11:25 PM
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 Precocious is Pernicious; The Myth of Prodigy and Why it Matters
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We think of precociousness as an early form of adult achievement, and,
according to Gladwell, that concept is much of the problem. "What a gifted
child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is,
is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement."
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