High-achieving adults rarely began as child prodigies

High-achieving adults rarely began as child prodigies

Christa Lesté-Lasserre at New Scientist: International chess masters, Olympic gold medallists and Nobel prize-winning scientists were rarely child prodigies, a review reveals. Likewise, early childhood successes and intense training programmes have rarely led to top achievement at a global level in the adult world. The analysis – based on 19 studies involving nearly 35,000 high-performing people – shows that the vast majority of adults who lead …