Child Prodigy
One of life's fanatasies is to have a gifted child, all the steering, maneuvering and encouragement. Despite it all, we will love the child as he is. The following are obervations and the result of study on the subject.
-extreme precocity
-domain specific abilities
-single mindedness of purpose
-seeming wisdom
-uncanny maturity
The prodigy is pretuned to an already existing body of knowledge, one that countless others had spent time and energy developing and refining. A remarkable intersection of person and field as if the two had been made for each other.
In addition to the natural capacities of the child prodigy a set of responsive and interested parents must be there to recognize and support the early signs of extreme talent. A domain must be introduced early enough to appropriately engage the energy, ability and enthusiasm of the child. Domains themselves evolve and change with time. Skills and abilities in one domain may not be duplicated by the demands of another domain.
When a climate of receptivity exists for certain fields, a set of cultural rewards, practices and values chrystalizes uniquely.
One too involved with achieving external goals outside of the activity, whose main concern is winning, can’t pay undivided attention to what they’re doing. Creative achievements depend on single-minded immersion in the domain.
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