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Childhoods of Exceptional People
Over the last year, I read an unhealthy amount of biographies of people that to me are exceptional. I took notes about their childhoods. von Neumann, Pascal, Woolf, Wagner, Curie - and about 30 more.
What are the patterns in how they were raised?
Henrik Karlssonx.comIt is just a way of viewing children: as capable of competence, as craving meaningful work, as worthy to be included in serious discussions. We can learn to view them like that, but it is a subtle and profound shift in perception, a shift away from the way we are taught to view children.