The problem with child prodigies
In this third installment of our series on genius, we look at the problem of child prodigies. Author David Shenk and chess champion Josh Waitzkin, who was the inspiration for the main character in 1993’s Searching for Bobby Fisher, join us to discuss where prodigy comes from, and where it goes when the child grows up.
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