天才：天才是天生的还是后天培养的

Are geniuses made, born or both?Asim Qureshi, Rockstar Homeschool Dad - WonderYearsSchool.comAnswered Jul 20Meet my daughter, Sabeen.Aged 8, she did her 16+ Maths exam, and, in practice papers of those exams she was usually getting the highest grade, putting her in the top 6% of UK 16 year olds.She spends her entire day eating chocolate pancakes and she taught herself maths. She is a genius.But if I tell you the truth, you’ll realise she’s not. She did fairly well at school. I took her out nearly 4 years ago to homeschool her. I taught her maths using the same system that Oxford University employs. Her 10 and 12 year old siblings also did the 16+ exams early - last year - and got the highest grades in maths, but they did not do them as early as her as when she was taken out of school she was younger than them.There are people with exceptional natural abilities, no doubt, but not so exceptional that they could achieve greatness without hard work. In ALL cases where they have achieved exceptional ability or success it’s because they also worked damn hard.How many people have ever won Wimbledon with less than 5 years intense training? No-one. Why aren’t there are any freaks of nature - geniuses - when it comes to tennis?If geniuses are born how come Michael Jordan, the greatest basketball player that ever lived didn’t even make the varsity basketball team in his sophomore year? Is he a basketball genius or not?There aren’t people with such exceptional ability in tennis or basketball and there aren’t in maths, physics, and everything else.If anyone still thinks there are geniuses out there, my daughter spends her entire day eating chocolate pancakes and she taught herself maths. She’s a genius.