Philosophy
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4 days agoLet Kids Be Kids? The Ethics of Maximizing Children's Talents
Children are increasingly pushed to maximize their athletic talent from a very young age, often at the expense of social and academic development.
You may have a leg up on the child prodigies who made you feel inadequate as a school kid. Despite outliers like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a new analysis based on 19 studies involving 34,000 high achievers across multiple disciplines - including Nobel laureates, top chess players, Olympic champions, and elite musicians - found that individuals who achieved peak performance early in life were not always the same people to reach high success in adulthood.