Sue Shellenbarger discusses the challenges of raising an accidental prodigy — and shares some definitions:
Fewer than 1% of children in the world are considered profoundly gifted, and even fewer are regarded as prodigies — defined as children under 10 who perform better than most highly skilled adults.
I love the last line:
Motivation >> other crap.
Well, these prodigies appear to have freakish natural talent and freakish motivation. I suppose if you have one but not the other, it’s the other that appears to be the key to success.