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“[M]ath prodigies are set somewhat apart from the more general-capacity prodigies, being seemingly possessed of a weird bit of wiring more than an over-all enhanced capacity for learning to do things.”

Adam Gopnik

How to Raise a Prodigy, The New Yorker (2018)

Learning

“What typically emerges from looking at kids, gifted and ordinary, is that, from the kids’ point of view, accomplishment, that is, the private sense of mastery, the hard thing suddenly made easy, counts for far more in their inner lives than does the achievement—the competition won, the reward secured.”

Adam Gopnik

How to Raise a Prodigy, The New Yorker (2018)

Sense

“Accomplishment, the feeling of absorption in the flow, of mastery for its own sake, of knowing how to do this thing, is what keeps all of us doing what we do, if we like what we do at all.”

Adam Gopnik

How to Raise a Prodigy, The New Yorker (2018)

Feeling

“Child rearing is an art, and what makes art art is that it is doing several things at once.”

Adam Gopnik

How to Raise a Prodigy, The New Yorker (2018)

Art

“Strenuously competitive parents may indeed produce high-achieving grownups, but it’s in the nature of things that high-achieving adults are likely to become frustrated and embittered old people, once the rug is pulled out from under their occupation.”

Adam Gopnik

How to Raise a Prodigy, The New Yorker (2018)

People , Nature , Parent

“The same parents can raise a dreamy, reflective girl and a driven, competitive one—the job is not to nurse her nature but to help elicit the essential opposite: to help the dreamy one to be a little more driven, the competitive one to be a little more reflective. The one artisanal, teachable thing is outer conduct.”

Adam Gopnik

How to Raise a Prodigy, The New Yorker (2018)

Girl , Nature , Parent , Help