"When you're ten, they call you a prodigy. When you're fifteen, they call you a genius. Once you hit twenty, you're just an ordinary person." - Haruka Nanase
Catherine T. Why that happens is that the child prodigy doesn't continue to exercise their muscle because they've always been ahead of the game. So everyone else catches up.
I feel like that in my classroom, everyone is impressed at how I now so much about everything, but the fact is that I don't know so much, rather, they know too little. Often I thought I was just wasting time there, I could be at a better school :(
I hate the ideas of prodigy. When I was little, they told me I was so smart, but when I grew I became average because my intelligence was no longer considered unusual. It meant I had no idea how to study because I never had to.
Agreed. Like, Einstein- genius. Alexander Gram Bell- genius. Mozart- Genius. Greg and Mitch of Asapscience- Genius and Genius. Jk Rowling- Genius. Newton - genius. Me- Genius. That's about it.
Throughout my childhood, I was constantly told I was the smartest kid anyone had ever known. I rarely had to try at anything and my teachers loved me. Now I'm in high school and shit starts to get hard I'm losing my mind because I wasn't ever taught how to put effort into my work.
But I get her, it is not that easy to do something you never needed to do all of a sudden, "how to learn surviving skills to endure a ground with different physics apllied to it?" I'm in my last year of high school, never studied, never paid attention to classes, and I feel stupid for not preparing for the challenges ahead, the path while you're young usually follows about the same reality rules, it is relatively easy to go along with the script, but far ahead driving will be done in the sky.
@@RitaColacoNuminous This is a real problem :c I suffer from it too, but I am a university student now xD I remember watching a video about this specific problem. I'll see if I can find it. (I couldn't :'u) (I COULD XDDD)
I was the opposite of a child prodigy. My parents were worried when I was in second grade that I wouldn't be able to comprehend reading, math, etc. because I was such a slow learner. Now I have a full ride to a state college and I ranked 3 out of 900 kids in my grade.
I've taken two "i.q" tests and I placed over 130. That shit is bullcrap I am not even "smart" I just have a high comprehension level. I can't count well. My command over the english language is moderate at best. I am somewhat of a loaner and I don't do anything amazing. I only have the ability to pick up things fast and do them moderately not amazingly well. Don't put too much stock in i.q we are all good at stuff.
@@oiux5749 so it just measures the development in children??? I took one when I was 12 and I scored like 115-118 and I was curious to see if the result has changed in 10 years 🧐
I was a child prodigy, but I was so shy and quiet no one ever knew my talents except for a few teachers. I mean, I was writing very completing stories when I was 9. Stories that wowed one teacher in particular, but that teacher basically bullied me, so I couldn't count on her to help me. Now that I am an adult and out of my shyness, I am able to use my gifts (fiction writing, illustration, animation, composing music, writing music, singing, dancing, painting, and more). I think it also matters what type of school you go to and what type of friends are around you. I went to public school and should have been at a school for gifted children and had friends that were like me.
What if all children are geniuses, and the ones we call prodigies are just the ones who discovered their talents sooner? I think Einstein said something along these lines, but I can't remember the exact quote.
Light Higher everybody is a genius at something but if you judge a thing by something they cannot do they will feel like they are stupid, a fish cannot climb a tree and saying its stupid to not be able to is wrong
So.. Just to summarize: once your 5yrs old you're called a prodigy, once your 10 to 15 yrs old you're called a genius but once your 18 to 20 yrs old you're normal and after older than that you're basically nothing. XP "Wow, life really is unfair when it comes to being special.."
My grandpa was once a child prodigy. He went to college at 14. Became a doctor but couldn't handle the heat so he resorted to alcohol and cigarettes. I am his granddaughter and I made him stop smoking but still need a bit help to make him stop drinking but he has cut it down a lot.
I understand, something similar happened to me, I learned extremely fast some things but I just couldn’t do others, while I was the first kid in my class to learn how to read and write I couldn’t hold the pencil correctly, while I was learning basic arithmetic, I could barely jump in two feet, tying my shoelaces or button up my shirt
Telling a kid they are a genius or prodigy is child abuse. Those kids define themselves as prodigies then become fearful of things that will rob them of that status. They don't take risks, they fear failure, they take the safest path like being a doctor or scientist. Kids with extreme talent that are never told they are prodigies are far more likely to blossom into creatives. They don't fear failure and even encourage it by taking risks and stepping outside the system.
@@HOPE-wg5pb not always, they might know they're above average but most of em just consider themselves prodigies because people told them so. Children don't understand talents as well as we adults do, they most likely think that they just practice more instead of having a gift
I was a child prodigy, I was smart, I quickly improved, an excellent growing artist, amazing writer, a fantastic mathematical genius and an avid novel reader, now, I’m just worthless and burnt out. The world is messed up, so many prodigy kids have burned out and lost hope. There is no hope for us. Edit: hey guys, I recently just got diagnosed with autism and ADHD which explains my talents and struggles, so wish me luck as I learn to manage and get myself back in track
+CogniVision Hells yes. I was a child prodigy, who grew up in a repressive, abusive, thoroughly dysfunctional family. I also grew up in a small, rural town with little to no opportunity to use or develop my talents and skills, and where the people had little to no tolerance for anyone out of the ordinary. My last battery of tests (which were done for psychiatric purposes) still placed my intelligence in the 99.5th percentile, but the fact is that as an adult, I'm a mentally ill, emotionally crippled, fuck-up, wasting the amazing brain I was born with because I can hardly negotiate daily life. I have dreams and ambitions that I can't see myself ever realising, because how can you write brilliant novels and make great art when you can't even muster the will to do the damn dishes?
***** Well, it's good to know we're not alone, at least. The question now is what to do about it. I for one am not quite ready to jump off a bridge just yet.
CogniVision unless the child has the resources and the will to practice every single day, then the parents realize that their child has a thing for it and get tutors and stuff for them and they become either famous, depressed, lonely, or an average person
IT SUCKS I totally relate to the abuse, family dsyfunction, everything... and it sucks because you know growing up that people only prize you for your intelligence. AND YPU GET ALL THIS FREAKING PRESSURE ON YPU FOR EVERY LAST THING YOU DO... OMG THE TALKS ABOUT WHICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL I WENT TO AND HOW MAKING MY DESCION I NEEDED TO BE AWARE OF HOW IT WOULD AFFECT ME FOR COLLEGE
neuralmute s JUST BLEH TO ALL OF WHAT WE HAVE BEEN PUT THROUGH.... I remember when it forst started becoming clear I was going to be smarter than my parents... the ego shock they took from an 8 yr old and the put downs.... It's a blessing because I couldn't imagine having lived life without my love of science and math. But it is a mother fuckn curse bc the pressure.... and it"s really stupid too... all the literature there is out there only paints us as clique backstabbing narrcisstic if there is more than one of us in a story AND URG ALL OF THE LITERTUARE ABOUT CHILD GENISUSES (minus Report Card. LOVED that one) JUST GETS US SO WRONG :'(
Creativity and Prodigeousness are more or less mutually exclusive. Very few child prodigies are successful because in order to be creative as a child prodigy you literally have to know everything. This is why child prodigies like Johnny Von Neuman can come up with creative solutions but most child prodigies fail to do so. Being that prodigies aren't scatter brained, in fact they have laser focus, the only way their making creative connections is if they know literally everything in the field their working with. Given prodigies are basically told their superior human beings since birth, which their not, most of them fail to live up to their potential, the same way most scatter brained geniuses fail to live up to their potential because people told them they were stupid since birth.
I strongly believe that if we nurture the kids struggling and give them more encouragement instead of giving the gifted better education and praise, this world will become a much better place.
When I was 7, I was already at a college level of Literature/Reading. My teachers had to give me courses that focused on extremely advanced vocabulary (the kind of courses you'd actually learn in college), and would ask me to constantly read novels meant for adults (The first one they gave me was The Illustrated Man). The older I got, the more they would overwork me to see how far my intelligence with literature/reading could go. It.. honestly sucked. I didn't really have much of a 'fun' childhood due to constant learning.
Are child prodigies born with talents? That goes against everything about how skill is built up.. if a child prodigy is born with an aptitude for the piano but never plays a piano, what then?
I was really good at writing when I was a kid and often wrote for fun. In no way was I a prodigy, I was just above average. I enjoyed it until I got older; we were forced to write in school and it made writing in my free time more of a task than something I enjoyed. I'm just an average student when it comes to English now.
I was a child protege, however after decades of being targeted for attacks and continually bullied for my natural abilities - I turned to drugs and dropped out of sight. I learned at a very early age that standing out only made you a target for jealousy and envy and that it was much safer to hide my talents and 'act' like those around me so as not to be singled out and harassed. It isn't so much of a gift as a curse I'm afraid.
Glad you know what statistical deviance truly is. When I attend industry events, the professional head hunters detect who I am. Some of them have word of mouth that I am present, so they do their racist best to silence me.
Well, my sister is a prodigy. When she was 1, we discovered that she could read English letters and numbers. Then, we also found out by accident, that by the age of three, she read in English, Russian and Armenian, as well as could do basic math. Then, I sat down with her and started doing some math. By the age of 4, she could do 5th grade math. Now tho, at the age of 7, she does her best to be like every single kid in her class, which means she's trying to act like she doesn't know it. It's only by accident when she lets out a weird math equation and everyone freaks out. Yep. That's sad af.
As a kid I could have been a genius if I had a better education, any bit of knowledge I gobbled up but "life" always got in the way and I had to learn how to be an adult early on so all my focus went towards being the best person possible (character development), common sense, learning how to be in school (I learned everything on my own as a kid) and focusing all my energy on one feild instead of just every subject I could get my hands on. It's not necessary to be well-rounded in a career :(
I have autism and I used to be really good at remembering stuff. In fifth grade I would sometimes do math problems in my head even if we were allowed to use calculators. My teachers were impressed and I didn't want to let myself down or then down, so I kept doing it in my head. Now I'm ninth grade and can barely remember things even after I just looked at it or was told what to do. Basically, I think I might have overworked my brain ( if that's possible ) and now can barely retain a thing. Either that or I've developed some kind of memory loss. Idk. I don't want to downplay or belittle anyone who actually has memory loss. I'd also get praised for how good my drawing was when I was younger. Now, looking at other artists younger and older than me with great art styles and just beautiful art skills in general is kinda discouraging. I know these skills develop over years, and I've been drawing my whole life, but I feel like I might mess up and never be as good as them.
It's also kinda depressing for me because I see other autistics with great memories and making contributions to the world in science and art, and I just haven't done anything except forget what I was just told.
Child prodigies fall into obscurity because everyone else ultimately catches up. the only difference is that they've hit their peak earlier than everyone else, and that peak may be lower than many others who had normal upbringings.
What you say means that you don't have knowledge. In music every soloist is a former prodigy, it is a natural course of events that the most talented kids are skilled very early. Nobody then catches up with those kids, only those "catch up" who were as skilled but more obscure.
@@MishaSkripach If that were true, we'd be far more advanced than we are now, which doesn't happen to be the case. And though you say ever soloist is a former prodigy, then why is the quality of our music today degrading? And to be honest, I don't know of any prodigy today that has made anything that has completely broke the barriers of progress, and I believe you can't either. The only people who were able to do that were those who have a business background, an already wealthy family and have dropped out of college.
@@yamchayaku What ridiculous attempt at logic... The key thing is : YOU don't know. LEARN THEN!!!! You know too little to have an opinion. Martha Argehich Maxim Vergerov Vadim Repin Yo Yo Ma Daniel Barenboim Janine Jansen Julia Fischer Hilary Hahn Daniil Trifonov ARE ALL PRODIGIES WHO HAVE GROWN UP. I bet you don't know a single name out of this list. LEARN!!!! Before you have opinion, you need to learn. People will laugh at your combination of complete self-assurance coupled with complete stoopidity (spelling intended).
I've always thought of prodigies as having extreme concentrated interests, being good at one thing, especially at an early age. This is good for being the best at one specific thing at a young age, when there are only so many things one can be good at. Masters on the other hand will have more diffuse interests, being good at many things and being able to relate concepts between fields of study. It takes time to become a true master.
Members of both sides of my family had IQ's of around 138 when tested at around age 3 or 4, but due to the serious depression that also runs on both sides of our family it is relatively impossible for any of us to complete, let alone excel in, high school and university without suicide attempts, mental breakdowns and immobilising depression. It's a little sad, really.
I was not considered autistic but was still highly ahead of my time. Teachers harrassed my mom to make me skip years and put me in the higher level classes because they told her that otherwise, I would become lazy and guess what? She didn't listen and it actually happened!! Fortunately enough, I'm somewhat of a rebel and didn't follow her strict rules either so I kinda had a narrow escape from "not standing out". I used to be a college dropout (started different techniques but I've quitted all of them at first year) but came back to college years later and the teachers called me "genius" (apparently I was very popular among the teachers): my papers were of master/doctorate level and I only was in my very first year of B.A. The only disappointment I have though, is that, because my mom always said I was not going for med because I was lazy, I'm constantly unsatisfied with my accomplishments and I often feel like I don't really deserve the good grades I have or any great words and I'm now suffering from performance anxiety. Despite that, I'm usually told that, if I continue the way I'm going, I'll make a whole lot of great things and have everything to stand out. It can be very cool to be a child prodigy for as long as you have parents that are willing to make you go as far as you can and that won't go all "jealy" over you. Kinda absurd...
My biggest thing was that I could read fluently by 2. My mom refused to let me skip throughout grade school for fear of being bullied, truthfully I was always torn about leaving friends behind.
Well, I have an IQ of 142. Elementary school was incredibly easy, and I had a very high reading level and math level. I was considered the top student, and was named so in sixth grade. The school district that I go to has a middle school and high school that both have a large concentration of high level students, so I went there. In middle school, I began to realize that there were people in the same math class or with the same reading level. In high school, where i am now, I'm in honors and AP classes, but the idea of failure isn't a concept that I enjoy because this is my first time encountering it. I've failed math tests and gotten Bs. I know that it is largely due to the fact that the school I go to is known for their competition, but it's really disheartening to see how quickly I went down in the ranks. I know I don't study nearly as much as they do, but a lot of students have already surpassed me with their grades
Yup I can tell you "no" cause me a great fucking anxiety today, not to mention the teacher induced/supported bullying through racial preferences, which has given me issues with authoritative figures, I still would love to attend a university, I still love the stars, and all the sciences. My best teacher once told me "you ask me so many questions, and I don't always have an answer for you, But that doesn't mean you should give up if I don't have an answer for you, ask someone else, if they don't know, look in a book, if the answer is not there keep looking, until you find it"... My dad is my favourite teacher Sometimes it's not the trail of paper you leave behind, but those lives you change by just caring.
Some people made major advancements in society. Others steadily lay the groundwork for those leaps forward. Possibly, though many child prodigies may not stand out in adulthood, they could still be contributing significantly to progress. So, all is not lost.
I falled of at 4th grade not because I was lazy,but because I was severely bullied and my self-esteem just called of and stop trying in life. But im happy to say I'm climbing back up in 7th just got my first 100 on a exam in ages.
You could argue that I was a genius when I was young, but my mother made me spend countless hours in phsycotherapy trying to make "normal". that plus the lack of motivation I got when I was older made my talents fade away and I'm still not "normal". and now instead of being a scientist I am making comments on TH-cam.
I wasn't a prodigy, but I never had problems in school and always had an intense interest in biology and excelled in the field (still do) compared to my peers, but nothing revolutionary. I later found out my IQ is 142, but all my potential is stifled by anxiety and depression, as well as a huge fear of rejection and failure. I'm a perfectionist and if I know I can't get a perfect score I just procrastinate until the deadline has passed, and think "If I only started earlier... Oh well, at least I didin't submit a subpar project."
I was always a good student in school and achieved in the arts. I did art and drew very well to my ability and people were like "How do you do that?" I say "This? This is not good enough." "That's not true." they say. Also, I have been doing piano for about 2 years now and my teacher tells me "You can do great things, if you try." and I now go by that rule in life. I also love the write and have a passion for it. It also interests me about different writing styles. I want to be a artist when I go up and I want to achieve my high expectations also I want to a writer, maybe pianoist and many more achievements. So I told this kid in art class the weird self I am, "You'll see me SUCCEED!"
I wasn't a prodigy, but I had a really easy time at school from a young age and that just made me sad when I was no longer years ahead of my peers. Because if you're fluent in English (I'm from Sweden) at the age I was, teachers won't know what to do. I could've expanded my vocabulary, gotten books to read, anything. Instead I corrected my friends' assignments, or on worse days, just sat there on my phone in class. I stopped learning new things and the things I knew became hazy. Teachers don't care about kids that aren't behind on their learning here, much less if they're even ahead. Our school system is all about having kids pass, not excel or even just be above average. Of course, that's only what the school will do. We still have a highly competitive system, it's just that the pressure of high grades is on the kids alone.
I knew how to read fluently when I was 3. Now I'm 26 and still struggling to finish my undergraduate degree. I never had proper studying habits or motivation.
I was a child prodigy. I was put into the higher level subjects and then the advanced track in school from 1st through graduating high school. My parents wanted to keep me with kids my own age even though the schools wanted me to skip grade levels.
+Abdullah NF I wonder if they include questions about hunting and fishing? We would consider a person pretty stupid if they couldn't tell a buck track from a doe track.
I'm part of the child of the new century study in England and they test things like reading and maths among other things. At the age of 4 I had the reading age of an average 16 year old. In addition I was recently diagnosed with autism I hadn't made the link between the two until now that's pretty cool.
At the age of 7, I was considered a pool prodigy. I would often run the table from the break and I won my dad a lot of money. I'm 45 now and couldn't sink more than 2 shots in a row. If you want to know where a lot of prodigies are now, I think that if they didn't maintain those skills, they faded over time. As for high I.Q and autism, I have both.
+Racist Bassist No, IQ is a way to measure intelligence, that is describe it objectively by numbers. That's the way hard science works and psychology is trying to be a hard science (unlike Freudian psychiatry for instance).
+JerehmiaBoaz No, IQ has always been meant to be a way to tell what someones strength and weakness are. "Intelligence" is subjective. It's just that modern society uses IQ to brag about.
+Racist Bassist Just like running test is creepy leftover from age of eugenics? IQ tests does what it's made for. Testing people's capability to solve puzzles. Which has always been seen as sign of intelligence.
I definitely was not a child prodigy. I seemed to be behind in learning for kids my age in my class. When I was a child in elementary, intermediate, and high school, I sometimes did not follow instructions in what the teachers were trying to say. Sometimes I misread questions in assignments and tests and I ended up failing very badly. I also suffer from Asperger's syndrome which might had been a problem. When teachers did things orally and not showed me what to do, I had enormous difficulty.
I could read my eldest sister's books when i was 5 (in year 1 of school) - my eldest sister was 12 so these were books like Harry Potter etc. - remember distinctly reading the Oxford Dictionary from start to finish when i was young as well; probably about 6, i just used to love seeing what words meant.
while reading the dictionary is weird, Harry potter for the top few kids in 1st grade is normal and doesn't mean much, except they picked up reading quickly.
As someone who might have had aspergers as a kid (at least I felt that way at times) ..... I really learned to fit in with people and get out of my shell... but it was really hard. My advice for anyone who may be gifted in drawing/music is to just embrace it and do what feels right because you aren't going to be as happy trying to fit in. Don't listen to people that say you will never make a living doing art/music because you can if you just keep working at it and don't give up.
Here's how to be a prodigy.. Be normal. It's impossible to be normal as there's no such thing as normal if you think about it. Everything is different, so if you can somehow be "normal"... you are the greatest prodigy
I was told to be gifted as a child, could talk almost perfectly at the age of 1, walked and ran by then too. School was that easy that it was boring, which soon lead to my disengagement. As life went on it only got worse, until highschool. I got a new lease of interest when entering a new school, and got into the top classes. All was well until I suddenly developed social anxiety. :/ lost all motivation, fell into depression, and hid in my home, fearful of the outside world. I'm currently sitting my GCSEs and expecting Cs, when one time my predicted grades were A*. Life sucks man.
"Following rules does not help you become Mozart". Mozart actually was a child prodigy who was very strictly parented and made to practice music relentlessly. And we all know in what life circumstances he died in.
I got tested in circa 2015 and my IQ is roughly 143 at any given time or situation. The other day I said "poor puppy" about a _horse_ in the Kentucky Derby... I meant it, too. For a solid 2 seconds. And then I felt the _horror_ set in.
I couldn't speak til I was 4yrs old. but WAS super intelligent in my schools growing up... That was before all the drugs and sex. I'm better now. and I'm running business, preach in my church and train youth on money since I was 19.
I was reading college textbooks for fun in second grade, but I was considered below grade level in reading by fourth grade. I think back to all the times as a kid that I was shot down, times when I wanted to do something arguably innocent and told no or that can't be done. I remember that the day I turned 14 I was ready to start my own business, because my parents said that was the legal age, but then they didn't help me at all. Honestly I had a lot of potential in my youth, but between school and my parents, it was completely beat out of me. Today I have a long list of mental illnesses and am barely hanging on in terms of functioning in society. I have to wonder how I would be if I was properly nurtured.
"We don't really know how many child prodigies are there in this world. But there's plenty enough to make reality shows about child prodigies." Nailed it!
I was a child prodigy. I'm one of those geniuses that society refuses to allow to be a genius because I was born into the wrong family. It's so annoying. I really hate having to fight the system just to get away from the favoritism I had to deal with in my school system when I was a child. I did get away from this for alil bit when I was in college, but it came back when I tried to get a job in the field that I majored in accounting, which is a field that ain't in high demand in the town that I live in, so I am gonna have to get outta the hometown to find a decent job in accounting. Again society is forcing me to remain average when I should be allowed to be the genius I truly am. I hate it so much. If I ever get the chance to go back to college and finish off my master's degree I will then also get an undergrad degree in physics just because I want to. I really like science, so I want a degree in the subject. I hope society allows this to happen soon. It would be nice to have some success in showing to society that I am a genius. So there!!
Albert Einstein didn’t speak until he was 3 years old. He couldn't speak until several years later. No one believed in him, even his teachers thought lowly about him. later he stunned the whole world with his intelligence.
I grew up to be depressed and feeling very different from my peers. I missed out on a lot of childhood activities, and I don't feel like I have a purpose anymore. My parents were absolutely marvellous, though.
I was always much better than average and picked up things very quickly (In academics, and how quickly I learned to walk and form sentences- I walked at 9 months and began forming sentences a little after one).I was always the smartest in the class and never studied and rarely ever got a B. However, this slowed down dramatically once I turned 12. I don't know if it had anything to do with the way I was being taught or something else. It was most likely the teaching environment because It was right when I was in 7th grade. The teachers began not to teach us and expected us to pick it up on our own. I was used to this because that's how they always treated kids in honors, but not to this extent. Most kids struggled but pushed through it. Though, for me it was harder, I strived in a place where they didn't teach you all the steps, and taught you short cuts because we were able to comprehend the problems without the extra information. So, now I do online because I found it was easier to learn by myself than to stay in a place that didn't care about whether you missed a class because you were absent and forced you to take tests anyway because I was not going to risk ruining my GPA and all my hard work for a couple of bad teachers.
Genius? What did they do to contribute to the fields of Music, Math or Science? Did they discover a new type of Math? Scientific Advancements? Revolutionized the way Music is made? They are intelligent but putting them besdie the term Genius is a bit overkill.
There's a much higher probability for a prodigy to make those advancements than normal people, it's just that there aren't many of them, so the majority of the contribution made is by normal people
i have dyslexia. i was given a regular I.Q. test. my last one at age 14 was rated at 117. and because of my scores that did not depend on English , they estimate it could have been as much as 50 points higher. once i learned how to deal with my dyslexia, i graduated at the top of my class in college.
Magnus Carlsen had a dad who saw the potential, and made sure that he could pursuit his passion as long as it was fun, creative and challenging in a good way for the kid. Today he's the world champion in chess. And to somewhat way, he's also taken the sport to a different level of recognition, because of his talent and his interests in other sports aswell. He's made chess popular again amongst people who really didn't have any interests in the game before. The use of technology and interactive playing has also been a huge success in the last couple of years.
I guess I was one at 10. I was playing 2 instruments and speaking 3 languages .. but I don't know if it's more of being surrounded by encouraging people with access to the right tools.
as a child I had a remarkable ability to absorb information on any subject really I still do I can regurgitate the info and I do understand it but I lack practical skills with most of the information unless it's math math is easy
Here is a good one. I was a Duke Scholar in Jr High. That year I had the second highest score in math and the second lowest GPA in the school. I continued to score in the upper 95% of my classmates on finals through highschool but was eventually asked to leave my high school because once on home school my homework grades began to rise. Its worth noting that I also contributed to the firing of two teachers at the high school that made me drop out. One of witch was sexually harassing my female classmates and the other was systematically incorporating sexism, racism and oppression in his classroom. What does that make me?
Most of their skills are not usually all that useful and are risk adverse. An unfortunate fact is that smarter people are often more risk adverse. Even though they are smart they rarely learn how to properly weigh risk return in their life and even more rarely learn about effectual thinking. I would hypothesize that if you taught effectual thinking to high IQ youth these children would be much more likely to be remarkable when older.
When I was at first grade,when the class started our teacher told us to memorize a poem from our book that she showed us.When we went home,my mom and her friend asked for any assignments and talked about stuff with my friend which is the son of my moms friend.When we told them we will memorize a poem I told the poem.The poem I said was exactly as the poem in the book!It was really shocking to me,and them.We read the poem for only one time when our teacher told us when we were still in class and the time I said the poem was afternoon!Like 3 O'clock.I really never forget that moment when I just instantly said the poem right in one time whitout reading it before saying it!Well it only happened one time but it was still awesome to experience it though.
+Nikorasu Chan (Nichii) He is a genius, one that doesn't need the acknowledgment of people like you. Whether you like it or not, he was a corporate genius.
I'm not a genius or prodigy but the no rules thing seems very true, I remember I was a smart kid in primary school because it wasn't very strict, then in high school things got "important" and I was pretty much a dumbass, but after that I was free again and my curiosity has been insatiable ever since, allowing me to learn much more than I did in school.
Well as a kid I was always leaps and bounds better than everyone I knew at art... I feel like I always had a knack for music too but my parents never pushed me :((( But definitely art! Even now, at a high school level, I can confidently say I am better than almost everyone my age and even up to a few years older than me. Drawing and painting has always been a passion of mine. I also grew up pretty smart, I'm not a genius, but I get high marks in school and it's always been easy for me. Interesting how people tend to separate art and creativity from technical intelligence in things like math when really they're closely related.
I couldn't read in Kindergarten but once I was tutor taught I could read way above the average level of the other kids in my class. I also can look at something, be it machine or puzzle and figure out automatically how to work it, I do this periodically because it's fun exercise for my brain, does that make me a prodigy?
+KashimusPrime sorry, probably no, I've only started learning English 3 years ago, but my reading level is higher than 99% of kids here in the U.S., it's only because I went to a very good school, and had great teachers.
+Emily W I think there have been studies that validate the theory that early enrichment actually increases IQ, but increases it only as high as that person's potential
+HermitOfTheFragshack Full scale actual test like WAIS or an online test? As I've stated in other comments, IQ is supposed to find strength and weakness, not try to define someones intelligence.
Prodigies tend to have parents that are too much in a hurry for their babies to grow up, so they teach them a 2nd grade curriculum before they can talk and how to play sports before they can run. Most babies are still growing up, while prodigies were thought to be grown up earlier, and are pressured (By trainers, parents or themselves) to be the best. The prodigies start off life very fast leaving regular people in the dust, but slow down or quit by age 30, when the hard workers in life catch up and surpass the childhood prodigy. At the end of the day, the prodigy becomes a missed potential, and the best is the people who defeated all odds. Ex: Many athletes and childhood actors. It's not always who started off first wins the race, but the person who defeats the odds.
I think I might be a prodigy art wise, I've been drawing and doing all kinds of art since I was very young, my dad was just like me when he was little, but are there anymore variables that might assist in creating a prodigy? Or is it limited to households with less rules? Possibly even genetics?
I'm an artist. So anyway, I was staying at my cousin's house and he's 3 but he can't speak properly yet. Anyway, I was painting something for my friends and he came up to me with his sister's paintbrush and started painting with me on a different peice of paper he was REAALLLYYYY good at it! I was thinking of even training him since he's so interested in painting. Like, normal children would just draw something like a person but he painted abstract art and while he did it you could just SEE how immersed he was in the art. He was literally IN LOVE with the art and you could see it in his eyes! it was seriously so cool
when I was young I had straight As and tested in the top 2 percent of my age. but then my family moved 13 times. mostly to military based with a lot of rules. now I'm in community college with below average math scores. im not blaming it on my parents but I didn't have the most nourishing childhood. now I'm a dissapointment.
Same here. It was so easy to be cocky when everything was easy as 1-2-3. Now, everything is biting me back. Lack of social interaction and not trying to improve myself as a person really hurt me. I'm just a typical teen that seems to have no life. R.i.p. the old me.
When I was 10/11 my mum forced me to practice my spellings and I got 20 out of 20 in most tests; then when my mum stopped tutoring me I started to slack off then I got 12 out of 20.
Aura flower Thompson There comes a point in time when what you've studied a head for become what you are currently studying and then you learn something new.
"Genius" has been so diluted by overuse that it's lost real meaning. Like "incredible" and "awesome" it only stands for "kinda good." I heard someone refer to Michio Kaku as a "super-genius." He's a smart guy, and gives good explanations of science, but come on!; where's the breakthrough discovery or Nobel Prize? Maybe Turing, Mozart, Shakespeare; definitely Newton and Einstein, but please don't apply the name to every smart kid.
I was in school at 3yrs old because I was such a difficult black child (girl) to manage. I could read, write cursive and do math. I couldn’t keep my mouth shut. I learned early that children (boys included) had no innate abilities that made them better. I learned that if bored I didn’t have to stay-I just got up and left. My grandma said ‘’you don’t have to go back til you are 6 but you must keep busy so you don’t ask everyone so many questions then tell them they are wrong.’’ I was often rude and asked to their face why someone didn’t know something. My family said I was an easy learner, not that I was a genius when tested in that range. I was not a world beater, but I was always the boss, managed multi genders and races. Yes, I understood I had an easier time gasping concepts, creating solutions, but so what-no Nobel earned.
"When you're ten, they call you a prodigy. When you're fifteen, they call you a genius. Once you hit twenty, you're just an ordinary person." - Haruka Nanase
Catherine T. Why that happens is that the child prodigy doesn't continue to exercise their muscle because they've always been ahead of the game. So everyone else catches up.
DellTewahdo child prodigies are still a lot more intelligent than well educated adults
+Catherine T.
Free! It's from the first episode, isn't it? i loved that quote
NK Ozpectro but it’s not like other people aren’t like that too.
Talented adults don't get as much attention because they don't have the cute factor
When i grow up, I want to be a child prodigy
Grammar Jew Thats how refrences work
You'd better want to be something else.
It's a shitty life.
coldfire0007 😂😂
It'll be too late by then! You can't be a child when you're grown up!
coldfire0007 should've said that when you were a fetus but it's too late now.
*"If you know you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room" -Anonymous*
This quote applies to child prodigies very much.
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Arthur's Horse E to the X to the A to the C to the T to the L to the Y!
Just me and my best friend in the same room
Me: *Leaves*
Me at school. 😠😤
I feel like that in my classroom, everyone is impressed at how I now so much about everything, but the fact is that I don't know so much, rather, they know too little. Often I thought I was just wasting time there, I could be at a better school :(
I hate the ideas of prodigy. When I was little, they told me I was so smart, but when I grew I became average because my intelligence was no longer considered unusual. It meant I had no idea how to study because I never had to.
Your IQ it's your likes now you know why
I feel this so much because the same happened to me
The word genius is so misused.
More like overused.
indeed
Loosely used :^)
Agreed. Like, Einstein- genius. Alexander Gram Bell- genius. Mozart- Genius. Greg and Mitch of Asapscience- Genius and Genius. Jk Rowling- Genius. Newton - genius. Me- Genius. That's about it.
+Acadatube (jk jk. I'm no genius. The rest, yes. Yes yes yes.)
I used to be one. Until I became a lazy 17 year old who will probably waste his entire life making dumb youtube comments like this one.
Same but I'm 16
DJ Jesus.He Died for your spins
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DJ Jesus.He Died for your spins I used to be one, now I'm a sadistic, depressed misanthropist.
Look at you, Mr.self-proclaimed prodigy ^^
I'm 14 and is doing the same thing as you do until the moment you saw this reply hangin'
Throughout my childhood, I was constantly told I was the smartest kid anyone had ever known. I rarely had to try at anything and my teachers loved me. Now I'm in high school and shit starts to get hard I'm losing my mind because I wasn't ever taught how to put effort into my work.
You can still learn that, through humility for example. Looking at how other people succeed through hard work!
But I get her, it is not that easy to do something you never needed to do all of a sudden, "how to learn surviving skills to endure a ground with different physics apllied to it?" I'm in my last year of high school, never studied, never paid attention to classes, and I feel stupid for not preparing for the challenges ahead, the path while you're young usually follows about the same reality rules, it is relatively easy to go along with the script, but far ahead driving will be done in the sky.
@@RitaColacoNuminous This is a real problem :c I suffer from it too, but I am a university student now xD I remember watching a video about this specific problem. I'll see if I can find it. (I couldn't :'u) (I COULD XDDD)
@@RitaColacoNuminous I found the video xDDDDDDd th-cam.com/video/QUjYy4Ksy1E/w-d-xo.html
I saw it in my recommended and remembered this xD
I never had to study to get straight A's and now that I'm in college I struggle to even open a book
I was the opposite of a child prodigy. My parents were worried when I was in second grade that I wouldn't be able to comprehend reading, math, etc. because I was such a slow learner. Now I have a full ride to a state college and I ranked 3 out of 900 kids in my grade.
what changed?
I've taken two "i.q" tests and I placed over 130. That shit is bullcrap I am not even "smart" I just have a high comprehension level. I can't count well. My command over the english language is moderate at best. I am somewhat of a loaner and I don't do anything amazing. I only have the ability to pick up things fast and do them moderately not amazingly well. Don't put too much stock in i.q we are all good at stuff.
+leo Moss Well how old were you when you took them? Past the age range of about 10-12, the tests should start to fall apart.
Oiux Edits The first one I was twenty four and the second one was last year. They are bullshit tests.
Then that's why. The IQ tests are designed to test childrens verbal abilities. Search it up, it's pointless to take IQ's past 10-12.
@@oiux5749 so it just measures the development in children??? I took one when I was 12 and I scored like 115-118 and I was curious to see if the result has changed in 10 years 🧐
I was a child prodigy, but I was so shy and quiet no one ever knew my talents except for a few teachers. I mean, I was writing very completing stories when I was 9. Stories that wowed one teacher in particular, but that teacher basically bullied me, so I couldn't count on her to help me. Now that I am an adult and out of my shyness, I am able to use my gifts (fiction writing, illustration, animation, composing music, writing music, singing, dancing, painting, and more). I think it also matters what type of school you go to and what type of friends are around you. I went to public school and should have been at a school for gifted children and had friends that were like me.
Are you a famous writer or illustrator now? Are you published?
I'm a Prodigy too.. I wrote this comment in flat 30mins with 7 edits.. 😎
Well you're lying unless you really edit this comment
Yash Keni he might just redo it before he posts it
Food Gurudev Omg people can’t understand jokes 😂
Legend
What if all children are geniuses, and the ones we call prodigies are just the ones who discovered their talents sooner? I think Einstein said something along these lines, but I can't remember the exact quote.
"Everybody is a genius, but if ask a fish to climb a tree it lives its whole life thinking it was stupid"- Albert Einstein
"Everyone's a genius.But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree,it will live its whole life believing it's stupid"
Pecan Pie I don't understand,can someone please explain to me what Einstein said.
Light Higher everybody is a genius at something but if you judge a thing by something they cannot do they will feel like they are stupid, a fish cannot climb a tree and saying its stupid to not be able to is wrong
My teacher always said that "Everyone is born with gifts, some just open theirs sooner than others" which I always found to be true
So.. Just to summarize: once your 5yrs old you're called a prodigy, once your 10 to 15 yrs old you're called a genius but once your 18 to 20 yrs old you're normal and after older than that you're basically nothing. XP
"Wow, life really is unfair when it comes to being special.."
HARUUU
I want a new season
collector99 We need a new season
but idk how they would continue it
When I was 5, I made aerial perspective drawings of my city. Now, I just flunked out of architecture school.
do you like architecture? or art? i wanted to do architecture at one point, then i met an architecture school and i was like this is beyond limiting.
My grandpa was once a child prodigy. He went to college at 14. Became a doctor but couldn't handle the heat so he resorted to alcohol and cigarettes. I am his granddaughter and I made him stop smoking but still need a bit help to make him stop drinking but he has cut it down a lot.
How did he go to college at 14?was he homeschooled or what?
I was a creativity bomb at young age. Now, I am just a high functioning sociopath.
I know the feeling
Looks like I know who to avoid.
I wasn't aware, that Sherlock Holmes wrote TH-cam comments.
I wanted to be a pirate. Now, I am just a high functioning sociopath.
That’s me but I still have some creativity left.
I was a late bloomer, as a kid a couldn't tie a shoe lace, now I can tie one.
I understand, something similar happened to me, I learned extremely fast some things but I just couldn’t do others, while I was the first kid in my class to learn how to read and write I couldn’t hold the pencil correctly, while I was learning basic arithmetic, I could barely jump in two feet, tying my shoelaces or button up my shirt
Telling a kid they are a genius or prodigy is child abuse. Those kids define themselves as prodigies then become fearful of things that will rob them of that status. They don't take risks, they fear failure, they take the safest path like being a doctor or scientist. Kids with extreme talent that are never told they are prodigies are far more likely to blossom into creatives. They don't fear failure and even encourage it by taking risks and stepping outside the system.
i disagree to a great extent ... they already know they are prodigy!
@@HOPE-wg5pb not always, they might know they're above average but most of em just consider themselves prodigies because people told them so. Children don't understand talents as well as we adults do, they most likely think that they just practice more instead of having a gift
I was a child prodigy, I was smart, I quickly improved, an excellent growing artist, amazing writer, a fantastic mathematical genius and an avid novel reader, now, I’m just worthless and burnt out.
The world is messed up, so many prodigy kids have burned out and lost hope.
There is no hope for us.
Edit: hey guys, I recently just got diagnosed with autism and ADHD which explains my talents and struggles, so wish me luck as I learn to manage and get myself back in track
As I've always preached it. It's always the damn parents.
+CogniVision
Hells yes. I was a child prodigy, who grew up in a repressive, abusive, thoroughly dysfunctional family. I also grew up in a small, rural town with little to no opportunity to use or develop my talents and skills, and where the people had little to no tolerance for anyone out of the ordinary. My last battery of tests (which were done for psychiatric purposes) still placed my intelligence in the 99.5th percentile, but the fact is that as an adult, I'm a mentally ill, emotionally crippled, fuck-up, wasting the amazing brain I was born with because I can hardly negotiate daily life. I have dreams and ambitions that I can't see myself ever realising, because how can you write brilliant novels and make great art when you can't even muster the will to do the damn dishes?
*****
Well, it's good to know we're not alone, at least. The question now is what to do about it. I for one am not quite ready to jump off a bridge just yet.
CogniVision unless the child has the resources and the will to practice every single day, then the parents realize that their child has a thing for it and get tutors and stuff for them and they become either famous, depressed, lonely, or an average person
IT SUCKS I totally relate to the abuse, family dsyfunction, everything...
and it sucks because you know growing up that people only prize you for your intelligence. AND YPU GET ALL THIS FREAKING PRESSURE ON YPU FOR EVERY LAST THING YOU DO... OMG THE TALKS ABOUT WHICH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL I WENT TO AND HOW MAKING MY DESCION I NEEDED TO BE AWARE OF HOW IT WOULD AFFECT ME FOR COLLEGE
neuralmute s JUST BLEH TO ALL OF WHAT WE HAVE BEEN PUT THROUGH....
I remember when it forst started becoming clear I was going to be smarter than my parents... the ego shock they took from an 8 yr old and the put downs....
It's a blessing because I couldn't imagine having lived life without my love of science and math.
But it is a mother fuckn curse bc the pressure.... and it"s really stupid too... all the literature there is out there only paints us as clique backstabbing narrcisstic if there is more than one of us in a story AND URG ALL OF THE LITERTUARE ABOUT CHILD GENISUSES (minus Report Card. LOVED that one) JUST GETS US SO WRONG :'(
Creativity and Prodigeousness are more or less mutually exclusive. Very few child prodigies are successful because in order to be creative as a child prodigy you literally have to know everything.
This is why child prodigies like Johnny Von Neuman can come up with creative solutions but most child prodigies fail to do so.
Being that prodigies aren't scatter brained, in fact they have laser focus, the only way their making creative connections is if they know literally everything in the field their working with.
Given prodigies are basically told their superior human beings since birth, which their not, most of them fail to live up to their potential, the same way most scatter brained geniuses fail to live up to their potential because people told them they were stupid since birth.
I strongly believe that if we nurture the kids struggling and give them more encouragement instead of giving the gifted better education and praise, this world will become a much better place.
When I was 7, I was already at a college level of Literature/Reading. My teachers had to give me courses that focused on extremely advanced vocabulary (the kind of courses you'd actually learn in college), and would ask me to constantly read novels meant for adults (The first one they gave me was The Illustrated Man). The older I got, the more they would overwork me to see how far my intelligence with literature/reading could go. It.. honestly sucked. I didn't really have much of a 'fun' childhood due to constant learning.
Im a 20 year old child prodigy
Tsundere Shark So am I
Are child prodigies born with talents? That goes against everything about how skill is built up.. if a child prodigy is born with an aptitude for the piano but never plays a piano, what then?
sucks to be them
I know, here I am not knowing that I could be an amazing porn star from the very start and I'll never know....
Ilovepuns! I feel the same with any of my interess
Some times there drawn to the subject. It becomes there passion.
@@LegalizeTheNuclearBomb lol
I was really good at writing when I was a kid and often wrote for fun. In no way was I a prodigy, I was just above average. I enjoyed it until I got older; we were forced to write in school and it made writing in my free time more of a task than something I enjoyed. I'm just an average student when it comes to English now.
I was a child protege, however after decades of being targeted for attacks and continually bullied for my natural abilities - I turned to drugs and dropped out of sight. I learned at a very early age that standing out only made you a target for jealousy and envy and that it was much safer to hide my talents and 'act' like those around me so as not to be singled out and harassed. It isn't so much of a gift as a curse I'm afraid.
Glad you know what statistical deviance truly is. When I attend industry events, the professional head hunters detect who I am. Some of them have word of mouth that I am present, so they do their racist best to silence me.
Oh gosh.. It's these envious n horrid people.. Oh I can't say-
Well, my sister is a prodigy. When she was 1, we discovered that she could read English letters and numbers. Then, we also found out by accident, that by the age of three, she read in English, Russian and Armenian, as well as could do basic math. Then, I sat down with her and started doing some math. By the age of 4, she could do 5th grade math. Now tho, at the age of 7, she does her best to be like every single kid in her class, which means she's trying to act like she doesn't know it. It's only by accident when she lets out a weird math equation and everyone freaks out. Yep. That's sad af.
My Father was a child prodigy, currently having an IQ well over 160
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As a kid I could have been a genius if I had a better education, any bit of knowledge I gobbled up but "life" always got in the way and I had to learn how to be an adult early on so all my focus went towards being the best person possible (character development), common sense, learning how to be in school (I learned everything on my own as a kid) and focusing all my energy on one feild instead of just every subject I could get my hands on. It's not necessary to be well-rounded in a career :(
I have autism and I used to be really good at remembering stuff. In fifth grade I would sometimes do math problems in my head even if we were allowed to use calculators. My teachers were impressed and I didn't want to let myself down or then down, so I kept doing it in my head. Now I'm ninth grade and can barely remember things even after I just looked at it or was told what to do. Basically, I think I might have overworked my brain ( if that's possible ) and now can barely retain a thing. Either that or I've developed some kind of memory loss. Idk. I don't want to downplay or belittle anyone who actually has memory loss.
I'd also get praised for how good my drawing was when I was younger. Now, looking at other artists younger and older than me with great art styles and just beautiful art skills in general is kinda discouraging. I know these skills develop over years, and I've been drawing my whole life, but I feel like I might mess up and never be as good as them.
It's also kinda depressing for me because I see other autistics with great memories and making contributions to the world in science and art, and I just haven't done anything except forget what I was just told.
Yeah well they're lucky to have opportunities too. I bet some poor kids could have been prodigies too but they didn't have anything to show it
Child prodigies fall into obscurity because everyone else ultimately catches up. the only difference is that they've hit their peak earlier than everyone else, and that peak may be lower than many others who had normal upbringings.
What you say means that you don't have knowledge. In music every soloist is a former prodigy, it is a natural course of events that the most talented kids are skilled very early. Nobody then catches up with those kids, only those "catch up" who were as skilled but more obscure.
@@MishaSkripach If that were true, we'd be far more advanced than we are now, which doesn't happen to be the case. And though you say ever soloist is a former prodigy, then why is the quality of our music today degrading? And to be honest, I don't know of any prodigy today that has made anything that has completely broke the barriers of progress, and I believe you can't either. The only people who were able to do that were those who have a business background, an already wealthy family and have dropped out of college.
@@yamchayaku What ridiculous attempt at logic... The key thing is : YOU don't know. LEARN THEN!!!! You know too little to have an opinion.
Martha Argehich
Maxim Vergerov
Vadim Repin
Yo Yo Ma
Daniel Barenboim
Janine Jansen
Julia Fischer
Hilary Hahn
Daniil Trifonov
ARE ALL PRODIGIES WHO HAVE GROWN UP.
I bet you don't know a single name out of this list.
LEARN!!!! Before you have opinion, you need to learn.
People will laugh at your combination of complete self-assurance coupled with complete stoopidity (spelling intended).
I've always thought of prodigies as having extreme concentrated interests, being good at one thing, especially at an early age. This is good for being the best at one specific thing at a young age, when there are only so many things one can be good at. Masters on the other hand will have more diffuse interests, being good at many things and being able to relate concepts between fields of study. It takes time to become a true master.
Members of both sides of my family had IQ's of around 138 when tested at around age 3 or 4, but due to the serious depression that also runs on both sides of our family it is relatively impossible for any of us to complete, let alone excel in, high school and university without suicide attempts, mental breakdowns and immobilising depression. It's a little sad, really.
I was not considered autistic but was still highly ahead of my time. Teachers harrassed my mom to make me skip years and put me in the higher level classes because they told her that otherwise, I would become lazy and guess what? She didn't listen and it actually happened!! Fortunately enough, I'm somewhat of a rebel and didn't follow her strict rules either so I kinda had a narrow escape from "not standing out". I used to be a college dropout (started different techniques but I've quitted all of them at first year) but came back to college years later and the teachers called me "genius" (apparently I was very popular among the teachers): my papers were of master/doctorate level and I only was in my very first year of B.A. The only disappointment I have though, is that, because my mom always said I was not going for med because I was lazy, I'm constantly unsatisfied with my accomplishments and I often feel like I don't really deserve the good grades I have or any great words and I'm now suffering from performance anxiety. Despite that, I'm usually told that, if I continue the way I'm going, I'll make a whole lot of great things and have everything to stand out.
It can be very cool to be a child prodigy for as long as you have parents that are willing to make you go as far as you can and that won't go all "jealy" over you. Kinda absurd...
My biggest thing was that I could read fluently by 2. My mom refused to let me skip throughout grade school for fear of being bullied, truthfully I was always torn about leaving friends behind.
Well, I have an IQ of 142. Elementary school was incredibly easy, and I had a very high reading level and math level. I was considered the top student, and was named so in sixth grade. The school district that I go to has a middle school and high school that both have a large concentration of high level students, so I went there. In middle school, I began to realize that there were people in the same math class or with the same reading level. In high school, where i am now, I'm in honors and AP classes, but the idea of failure isn't a concept that I enjoy because this is my first time encountering it. I've failed math tests and gotten Bs. I know that it is largely due to the fact that the school I go to is known for their competition, but it's really disheartening to see how quickly I went down in the ranks. I know I don't study nearly as much as they do, but a lot of students have already surpassed me with their grades
Yup I can tell you "no" cause me a great fucking anxiety today, not to mention the teacher induced/supported bullying through racial preferences, which has given me issues with authoritative figures, I still would love to attend a university, I still love the stars, and all the sciences.
My best teacher once told me "you ask me so many questions, and I don't always have an answer for you, But that doesn't mean you should give up if I don't have an answer for you, ask someone else, if they don't know, look in a book, if the answer is not there keep looking, until you find it"...
My dad is my favourite teacher
Sometimes it's not the trail of paper you leave behind, but those lives you change by just caring.
Some people made major advancements in society. Others steadily lay the groundwork for those leaps forward. Possibly, though many child prodigies may not stand out in adulthood, they could still be contributing significantly to progress. So, all is not lost.
Go right to the start of the video and pause lol 😂
😯😯😯
+culdee4 lol
It isnt funny
Julia's face when it goes in the wrong hole
+iknowrstank childish af
I falled of at 4th grade not because I was lazy,but because I was severely bullied and my self-esteem just called of and stop trying in life. But im happy to say I'm climbing back up in 7th just got my first 100 on a exam in ages.
You could argue that I was a genius when I was young, but my mother made me spend countless hours in phsycotherapy trying to make "normal". that plus the lack of motivation I got when I was older made my talents fade away and I'm still not "normal". and now instead of being a scientist I am making comments on TH-cam.
I wasn't a prodigy, but I never had problems in school and always had an intense interest in biology and excelled in the field (still do) compared to my peers, but nothing revolutionary. I later found out my IQ is 142, but all my potential is stifled by anxiety and depression, as well as a huge fear of rejection and failure. I'm a perfectionist and if I know I can't get a perfect score I just procrastinate until the deadline has passed, and think "If I only started earlier... Oh well, at least I didin't submit a subpar project."
I was always a good student in school and achieved in the arts. I did art and drew very well to my ability and people were like "How do you do that?" I say "This? This is not good enough." "That's not true." they say. Also, I have been doing piano for about 2 years now and my teacher tells me "You can do great things, if you try." and I now go by that rule in life. I also love the write and have a passion for it. It also interests me about different writing styles. I want to be a artist when I go up and I want to achieve my high expectations also I want to a writer, maybe pianoist and many more achievements. So I told this kid in art class the weird self I am, "You'll see me SUCCEED!"
Does eating more than you naturally can count me as a Prodigy?
2:22 is the part you came for
Thank you
sure, guys
I wasn't a prodigy, but I had a really easy time at school from a young age and that just made me sad when I was no longer years ahead of my peers. Because if you're fluent in English (I'm from Sweden) at the age I was, teachers won't know what to do. I could've expanded my vocabulary, gotten books to read, anything. Instead I corrected my friends' assignments, or on worse days, just sat there on my phone in class. I stopped learning new things and the things I knew became hazy. Teachers don't care about kids that aren't behind on their learning here, much less if they're even ahead. Our school system is all about having kids pass, not excel or even just be above average. Of course, that's only what the school will do. We still have a highly competitive system, it's just that the pressure of high grades is on the kids alone.
I knew how to read fluently when I was 3. Now I'm 26 and still struggling to finish my undergraduate degree. I never had proper studying habits or motivation.
Yep, intelligence has nothing much to do with other personality traits. No indicator of success in adult life, either.
I was a child prodigy. I was put into the higher level subjects and then the advanced track in school from 1st through graduating high school. My parents wanted to keep me with kids my own age even though the schools wanted me to skip grade levels.
Serious question, where can I take a legitimate IQ test?
in a pub with drunk men
+Abdullah NF I wonder if they include questions about hunting and fishing? We would consider a person pretty stupid if they couldn't tell a buck track from a doe track.
+Carter Smith couldn't have said it better
+bacon Lord you need to pay for that one
+Bobby Harper who's we?
so essentially it's like big ears on a pup, they eventually grow into them and now it's a regular dog with regular sized ears.
I'm part of the child of the new century study in England and they test things like reading and maths among other things. At the age of 4 I had the reading age of an average 16 year old. In addition I was recently diagnosed with autism I hadn't made the link between the two until now that's pretty cool.
Drawing skill is not at all connected to intelligence, it is all about a talent for drawing.
When you're ten, they call you prodigy,
When you're fifteen, they call you genius,
Once you hit twenty, you're just an ordinary person
- Haruka Nanase
At the age of 7, I was considered a pool prodigy. I would often run the table from the break and I won my dad a lot of money. I'm 45 now and couldn't sink more than 2 shots in a row. If you want to know where a lot of prodigies are now, I think that if they didn't maintain those skills, they faded over time. As for high I.Q and autism, I have both.
IQ is a creepy leftover from the age of eugenics.
Indeed
+Racist Bassist you make it sound like the human race has moved on...those 'theories' are alive and well. You're welcome for the pleasant thought.
+Racist Bassist No, IQ is a way to measure intelligence, that is describe it objectively by numbers. That's the way hard science works and psychology is trying to be a hard science (unlike Freudian psychiatry for instance).
+JerehmiaBoaz No, IQ has always been meant to be a way to tell what someones strength and weakness are. "Intelligence" is subjective. It's just that modern society uses IQ to brag about.
+Racist Bassist Just like running test is creepy leftover from age of eugenics?
IQ tests does what it's made for. Testing people's capability to solve puzzles. Which has always been seen as sign of intelligence.
I definitely was not a child prodigy. I seemed to be behind in learning for kids my age in my class. When I was a child in elementary, intermediate, and high school, I sometimes did not follow instructions in what the teachers were trying to say. Sometimes I misread questions in assignments and tests and I ended up failing very badly. I also suffer from Asperger's syndrome which might had been a problem. When teachers did things orally and not showed me what to do, I had enormous difficulty.
I could read my eldest sister's books when i was 5 (in year 1 of school) - my eldest sister was 12 so these were books like Harry Potter etc. - remember distinctly reading the Oxford Dictionary from start to finish when i was young as well; probably about 6, i just used to love seeing what words meant.
while reading the dictionary is weird, Harry potter for the top few kids in 1st grade is normal and doesn't mean much, except they picked up reading quickly.
As someone who might have had aspergers as a kid (at least I felt that way at times) ..... I really learned to fit in with people and get out of my shell... but it was really hard. My advice for anyone who may be gifted in drawing/music is to just embrace it and do what feels right because you aren't going to be as happy trying to fit in. Don't listen to people that say you will never make a living doing art/music because you can if you just keep working at it and don't give up.
Here's how to be a prodigy.. Be normal. It's impossible to be normal as there's no such thing as normal if you think about it. Everything is different, so if you can somehow be "normal"... you are the greatest prodigy
omg trueeeeeeeee
I was told to be gifted as a child, could talk almost perfectly at the age of 1, walked and ran by then too. School was that easy that it was boring, which soon lead to my disengagement. As life went on it only got worse, until highschool. I got a new lease of interest when entering a new school, and got into the top classes. All was well until I suddenly developed social anxiety. :/ lost all motivation, fell into depression, and hid in my home, fearful of the outside world. I'm currently sitting my GCSEs and expecting Cs, when one time my predicted grades were A*. Life sucks man.
"Following rules does not help you become Mozart". Mozart actually was a child prodigy who was very strictly parented and made to practice music relentlessly. And we all know in what life circumstances he died in.
I got tested in circa 2015 and my IQ is roughly 143 at any given time or situation.
The other day I said "poor puppy" about a _horse_ in the Kentucky Derby...
I meant it, too. For a solid 2 seconds. And then I felt the _horror_ set in.
I couldn't speak til I was 4yrs old.
but WAS super intelligent in my schools growing up... That was before all the drugs and sex.
I'm better now. and I'm running business, preach in my church and train youth on money since I was 19.
I was reading college textbooks for fun in second grade, but I was considered below grade level in reading by fourth grade. I think back to all the times as a kid that I was shot down, times when I wanted to do something arguably innocent and told no or that can't be done. I remember that the day I turned 14 I was ready to start my own business, because my parents said that was the legal age, but then they didn't help me at all. Honestly I had a lot of potential in my youth, but between school and my parents, it was completely beat out of me. Today I have a long list of mental illnesses and am barely hanging on in terms of functioning in society. I have to wonder how I would be if I was properly nurtured.
"We don't really know how many child prodigies are there in this world. But there's plenty enough to make reality shows about child prodigies."
Nailed it!
I was a child prodigy. I'm one of those geniuses that society refuses to allow to be a genius because I was born into the wrong family. It's so annoying. I really hate having to fight the system just to get away from the favoritism I had to deal with in my school system when I was a child. I did get away from this for alil bit when I was in college, but it came back when I tried to get a job in the field that I majored in accounting, which is a field that ain't in high demand in the town that I live in, so I am gonna have to get outta the hometown to find a decent job in accounting. Again society is forcing me to remain average when I should be allowed to be the genius I truly am. I hate it so much. If I ever get the chance to go back to college and finish off my master's degree I will then also get an undergrad degree in physics just because I want to. I really like science, so I want a degree in the subject. I hope society allows this to happen soon. It would be nice to have some success in showing to society that I am a genius. So there!!
Albert Einstein didn’t speak until he was 3 years old. He couldn't speak until several years later. No one believed in him, even his teachers thought lowly about him.
later he stunned the whole world with his intelligence.
Actually that's incorrect he was actually a bookworm and a teachers pet
He also got high marks
Simon Wang I’m pretty sure he had dyslexia, which made him seem dumb.
I grew up to be depressed and feeling very different from my peers. I missed out on a lot of childhood activities, and I don't feel like I have a purpose anymore. My parents were absolutely marvellous, though.
Wish I could show this to my mom about the rule part, but like always, she'll just go
"Thats false, they didn't have scientific evidence."
I was always much better than average and picked up things very quickly (In academics, and how quickly I learned to walk and form sentences- I walked at 9 months and began forming sentences a little after one).I was always the smartest in the class and never studied and rarely ever got a B. However, this slowed down dramatically once I turned 12. I don't know if it had anything to do with the way I was being taught or something else. It was most likely the teaching environment because It was right when I was in 7th grade. The teachers began not to teach us and expected us to pick it up on our own. I was used to this because that's how they always treated kids in honors, but not to this extent. Most kids struggled but pushed through it. Though, for me it was harder, I strived in a place where they didn't teach you all the steps, and taught you short cuts because we were able to comprehend the problems without the extra information. So, now I do online because I found it was easier to learn by myself than to stay in a place that didn't care about whether you missed a class because you were absent and forced you to take tests anyway because I was not going to risk ruining my GPA and all my hard work for a couple of bad teachers.
Genius? What did they do to contribute to the fields of Music, Math or Science? Did they discover a new type of Math? Scientific Advancements? Revolutionized the way Music is made? They are intelligent but putting them besdie the term Genius is a bit overkill.
Well they could... Some do...
There's a much higher probability for a prodigy to make those advancements than normal people, it's just that there aren't many of them, so the majority of the contribution made is by normal people
i have dyslexia. i was given a regular I.Q. test. my last one at age 14 was rated at 117. and because of my scores that did not depend on English , they estimate it could have been as much as 50 points higher. once i learned how to deal with my dyslexia, i graduated at the top of my class in college.
3:08
"More creative kids had less than 1 [rule]"
So zero rules?
Magnus Carlsen had a dad who saw the potential, and made sure that he could pursuit his passion as long as it was fun, creative and challenging in a good way for the kid. Today he's the world champion in chess. And to somewhat way, he's also taken the sport to a different level of recognition, because of his talent and his interests in other sports aswell. He's made chess popular again amongst people who really didn't have any interests in the game before. The use of technology and interactive playing has also been a huge success in the last couple of years.
I guess I was one at 10. I was playing 2 instruments and speaking 3 languages .. but I don't know if it's more of being surrounded by encouraging people with access to the right tools.
yeah and then after that, ppl dont care anymore, right? its sad how life is.
as a child I had a remarkable ability to absorb information on any subject really I still do I can regurgitate the info and I do understand it but I lack practical skills with most of the information unless it's math math is easy
Clayton Fry Grammar and punctuation clearly isn't easy for you...
Clayton Fry if you think math is easy you haven't done any non-trivial math
Just skip all that math and learn physics it will all suddenly come to you like me
Here is a good one. I was a Duke Scholar in Jr High. That year I had the second highest score in math and the second lowest GPA in the school. I continued to score in the upper 95% of my classmates on finals through highschool but was eventually asked to leave my high school because once on home school my homework grades began to rise. Its worth noting that I also contributed to the firing of two teachers at the high school that made me drop out. One of witch was sexually harassing my female classmates and the other was systematically incorporating sexism, racism and oppression in his classroom.
What does that make me?
Most of their skills are not usually all that useful and are risk adverse. An unfortunate fact is that smarter people are often more risk adverse. Even though they are smart they rarely learn how to properly weigh risk return in their life and even more rarely learn about effectual thinking. I would hypothesize that if you taught effectual thinking to high IQ youth these children would be much more likely to be remarkable when older.
When I was at first grade,when the class started our teacher told us to memorize a poem from our book that she showed us.When we went home,my mom and her friend asked for any assignments and talked about stuff with my friend which is the son of my moms friend.When we told them we will memorize a poem I told the poem.The poem I said was exactly as the poem in the book!It was really shocking to me,and them.We read the poem for only one time when our teacher told us when we were still in class and the time I said the poem was afternoon!Like 3 O'clock.I really never forget that moment when I just instantly said the poem right in one time whitout reading it before saying it!Well it only happened one time but it was still awesome to experience it though.
Showing Steve Jobs picture right after you say "genius" offends me
Why?
+Nikorasu Chan (Nichii) He is a genius, one that doesn't need the acknowledgment of people like you. Whether you like it or not, he was a corporate genius.
jk bro
you don't have to be a genius to innovate/inspire or become an entrepreneur
Jobs couldn't hold Bill Gate's jock strap.
I'm not a genius or prodigy but the no rules thing seems very true, I remember I was a smart kid in primary school because it wasn't very strict, then in high school things got "important" and I was pretty much a dumbass, but after that I was free again and my curiosity has been insatiable ever since, allowing me to learn much more than I did in school.
I've always liked to consider myself a genius.
It's the thought that counts
Kai Widman The fact that you “consider” is the reason you’re not.
Kai Widman may iq is 153
help me for the love of shrek it’s a joke jimbo.
Being a child prodigy sucks once you get older. The novelty is lost. You’re still exceptional but become a threat to ordinary people.
How do you know? Are you a former prodigy?
I was a kid genius...now I speak 7 languages :D...but I haven't accomplished shit in my life./
Well as a kid I was always leaps and bounds better than everyone I knew at art... I feel like I always had a knack for music too but my parents never pushed me :((( But definitely art! Even now, at a high school level, I can confidently say I am better than almost everyone my age and even up to a few years older than me. Drawing and painting has always been a passion of mine. I also grew up pretty smart, I'm not a genius, but I get high marks in school and it's always been easy for me. Interesting how people tend to separate art and creativity from technical intelligence in things like math when really they're closely related.
I couldn't read in Kindergarten but once I was tutor taught I could read way above the average level of the other kids in my class. I also can look at something, be it machine or puzzle and figure out automatically how to work it, I do this periodically because it's fun exercise for my brain, does that make me a prodigy?
No
It means your above the norm
+KashimusPrime This is called the difference between a good education and a bad one. Nothing else.
+KashimusPrime sorry, probably no, I've only started learning English 3 years ago, but my reading level is higher than 99% of kids here in the U.S., it's only because I went to a very good school, and had great teachers.
+Emily W I think there have been studies that validate the theory that early enrichment actually increases IQ, but increases it only as high as that person's potential
Had my iq tested at 138 as a 9 year old. not much came from it. I'm a senior now and have failed most my classes since I was in middle school.
i took an iq test expecting to be average, but it turns out im really stupid... ignorance is bliss my friends
+HermitOfTheFragshack My bullshit detector isn't going off...Am I still on youtube?
Kudos for a truthful comment.
(if you don't mind me asking) what did you get?
Lily R around 90
+HermitOfTheFragshack Full scale actual test like WAIS or an online test? As I've stated in other comments, IQ is supposed to find strength and weakness, not try to define someones intelligence.
TheEternalPie online after i took a school test which put into special ed (not the good side)
3:06 Wait... how do you have less than one rule?
Ig that means like no rules
What happens to child prodigies when they grow up?
They die
Everyone dies.
i know including Child Prodigies
Prodigies tend to have parents that are too much in a hurry for their babies to grow up, so they teach them a 2nd grade curriculum before they can talk and how to play sports before they can run. Most babies are still growing up, while prodigies were thought to be grown up earlier, and are pressured (By trainers, parents or themselves) to be the best.
The prodigies start off life very fast leaving regular people in the dust, but slow down or quit by age 30, when the hard workers in life catch up and surpass the childhood prodigy. At the end of the day, the prodigy becomes a missed potential, and the best is the people who defeated all odds. Ex: Many athletes and childhood actors. It's not always who started off first wins the race, but the person who defeats the odds.
I think I might be a prodigy art wise, I've been drawing and doing all kinds of art since I was very young, my dad was just like me when he was little, but are there anymore variables that might assist in creating a prodigy? Or is it limited to households with less rules? Possibly even genetics?
I'm an artist. So anyway, I was staying at my cousin's house and he's 3 but he can't speak properly yet. Anyway, I was painting something for my friends and he came up to me with his sister's paintbrush and started painting with me on a different peice of paper he was REAALLLYYYY good at it! I was thinking of even training him since he's so interested in painting. Like, normal children would just draw something like a person but he painted abstract art and while he did it you could just SEE how immersed he was in the art. He was literally IN LOVE with the art and you could see it in his eyes! it was seriously so cool
when I was young I had straight As and tested in the top 2 percent of my age. but then my family moved 13 times. mostly to military based with a lot of rules. now I'm in community college with below average math scores. im not blaming it on my parents but I didn't have the most nourishing childhood. now I'm a dissapointment.
Same here. It was so easy to be cocky when everything was easy as 1-2-3. Now, everything is biting me back. Lack of social interaction and not trying to improve myself as a person really hurt me. I'm just a typical teen that seems to have no life. R.i.p. the old me.
When I was 10/11 my mum forced me to practice my spellings and I got 20 out of 20 in most tests; then when my mum stopped tutoring me I started to slack off then I got 12 out of 20.
Aura flower Thompson There comes a point in time when what you've studied a head for become what you are currently studying and then you learn something new.
Why everyone in the comment suddenly became child prodigy?
"Genius" has been so diluted by overuse that it's lost real meaning. Like "incredible" and "awesome" it only stands for "kinda good." I heard someone refer to Michio Kaku as a "super-genius." He's a smart guy, and gives good explanations of science, but come on!; where's the breakthrough discovery or Nobel Prize? Maybe Turing, Mozart, Shakespeare; definitely Newton and Einstein, but please don't apply the name to every smart kid.
Agreed
I was in school at 3yrs old because I was such a difficult black child (girl) to manage. I could read, write cursive and do math. I couldn’t keep my mouth shut. I learned early that children (boys included) had no innate abilities that made them better. I learned that if bored I didn’t have to stay-I just got up and left. My grandma said ‘’you don’t have to go back til you are 6 but you must keep busy so you don’t ask everyone so many questions then tell them they are wrong.’’ I was often rude and asked to their face why someone didn’t know something. My family said I was an easy learner, not that I was a genius when tested in that range. I was not a world beater, but I was always the boss, managed multi genders and races. Yes, I understood I had an easier time gasping concepts, creating solutions, but so what-no Nobel earned.
Nope, high IQ but no particular talent. I like to believe I was born in the wrong era and that's why my talent remains hidden.. Yeah.
+ScarlettShinzon same
AndiLives Maybe your talent is playing an uninvented instrument