Malcolm Gladwell on The Myth of the Prodigy. I heard Gladwell give this talk at Google a few months back. Interestingly, the impression I had gotten was that the kids from Hunter College were doing better than just okay — that they were not famous, but all very happy. Perhaps the smartest kids are those who learn how to be satisfied with a balance.

I’ve seen this floating around the blogosphere the past few days, and I actually went and dug up the email I sent him in 2001 suggesting that this would be an interesting topic for him to write about.

I won’t take credit for the idea (it’s mostly obvious given what he writes about) but I do feel validated, nonetheless.

[...] Following up on my Myth of the Prodigy link, here is an interesting article on the Expert Mind. tags: article, interesting, psychology 2006-10-19-10:51 PM # [...]