Chapter 85 Prodigy and Genius

Two senior intellectuals made a great wish to train their children to be geniuses, and the result was. At the end of the last century, there were two high-level intellectuals in Boston, the Harvard University philologist Leo and psychiatrist Burliss. Both of them just gave birth to a baby boy. A child develops into a genius. They tried all kinds of methods to stimulate the children's mental development, but Huang Tian seemed to pay off, and both children became contemporary child prodigies.Leo's son, Noble, received a Ph.D. in his teens, and Burlis's son, William James (William. Shenyuan) also entered Harvard University at the age of eleven and presented a thesis on an original theory of advanced mathematics that shocked his parents.His mind was precocious, and newspapers and magazines at that time had made large-scale reports.

But the development of the two child prodigies in the future is very different.Noble will continue to develop his talents in the future and become an outstanding mathematician in this century and the founder of artificial intelligence. Modern computers are partly based on this theory.But William James did not have any outstanding performance. For many years, he has been turning around in some industries with no visible results. In the 1930s, The New Yorker's character commentary column <Where Are They Now? > Said that William James lived alone at the time, he had completely given up intellectual pursuits, and was doing nothing all day long, collecting patterns of trams around the world.As a grown-up, his only claim to fame was a court complaint accusing newspapers and magazines of violating his privacy. The former child prodigy no longer wanted society to pay attention to him.He died in 1944 at the age of forty-six.

Noble and William James became child prodigies because of their innate talent and acquired training, but they are both child prodigies, why did one shine brilliantly while the other became dull when they grew up?Psychologists have found many reasons after the fact, but even if we know all kinds of reasons and methods, we still can't accurately predict whether a child prodigy will become a genius.