Can prodigies be created with early specialization? Laszlo Polgar was an educational psychologist who believed they could. He experimented with his own children and the results were fascinating.
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12/03/20 • 33 min
Prodigy - The Polgar Sisters
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Hijack. It's a productive of I heart radio. Prodigies are children that display rapid skill acquisition in a domain. A domain is any specific area of activity or knowledge, like tennis, or writing, or psychology or chess. Chess is a domain where mastery is associated with a superior intellect. It's incredibly strategic. Yet it's simple enough that a child can play. But some children do more than just play. My name is Lowell Balante, and this is p
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