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fromPsychology Today
1 week ago

A New Study Questions Everything We Knew About Early Talent

Early specialization predicts early wins but not ultimate elite adult performance; top adult performers typically emerge from broader, slower development.
fromFortune
1 month ago

New study finds that late bloomers are more successful than child prodigies | Fortune

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.
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