"Across the highest adult performance levels, peak performance is negatively correlated with early performance." ...

A study of 34,000 high achievers found that those who achieved elite performance early on often did not reach pinnacles in ...

We grow up believing that greatness reveals itself early. The chess prodigy, the child violinist, the teenage Olympian—these ...

International chess masters, Olympic gold medallists and Nobel prize-winning scientists were rarely child prodigies, a review reveals. Likewise, early childhood successes and intense training ...

A prodigy is a child younger than 10 years old who shows astounding proficiency in one or more artistic or academic fields. These remarkable youngsters have inspired wonder and awe. And at certain ...