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What Makes Prodigy Stories Attractive?

What Makes Prodigy Stories Attractive?

One of the reasons that David points out on why prodigy stories are so attractive is because we're used to thinking of everything as being a trajectory. Hence why it's intuitive to want to give a kid a head start.

The problem with that is we don't follow linear progressions.

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Through this video, the best-seller author, David Epstein, demonstrates why divergent thinkers (or generalists) beat prodigies in the actual changing world.

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