Child prodigies | Robert Wright & Ann Hulbert [The Wright Show]

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Channel: NonzeroClips · 2018 · People & Blogs

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0:24 Ann's new book on child prodigies, "Off the Charts"

6:52 Will a child prodigy become an adult non-prodigy?

11:24 The cautionary tale of Bobby Fischer

28:06 The prodigy's "adolescent crisis"

33:16 How people misunderstood Amy Chua, the "Tiger Mom" 

39:00 The insanity of the college admissions gauntlet

45:49 Child prodigies inspire sympathy. Their parents? Not so much.

Robert Wright (Bloggingheads.tv, The Evolution of God, Nonzero, Why Buddhism Is True) and Ann Hulbert (The Atlantic, Off the Charts)

Recorded on February 6, 2018

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