>reading about child prodigies
>>27500785
I don't see why you're bent out of shape. I was one and here I am, faggot. Imagine being told you're gonna make it your entire life then ending up here.
>feelsbadman.jpeg
>>27500785
>>27500806
Child prodigies rarely amount to much. Who would've guess there's more to succeeding at life than being really good at piano for a 5 year old?
>not being content with simply existing, failure or success notwithstanding
i pity you guys, i do
>>27500806
how were you prodigal?
>>27500936
most of them actually do though maybe not in their original talent though. like they could be a really great software developer or something then one day they're out for lunch and there's a piano in the cafe and they sit down play ludwig like it's seemingly nothing while their coworkers are in awe.
>remember hearing about child prodigies when I was a child
>they probably just ended up either normies or emotionally handicapped because of their awkward upbringing and lack of childhood
Serves them right. Stupid smart kids.
>>27500990
>prodigal
That word has no relation to the word "prodigy"
>200iq
>choose the white trash path
>https://youtu.be/j-788Upky2Y
It's all about maximizing happiness. Some choose the simplest path.
>>27500936
this, they make all kinds of news and OH WOW SHE'S ONLY SEVEN, but then they grow up into mediocre adults at best in most cases, because they rebel against their parents in adolescence, parents who were the only reason they were so good in the first place because they forced the kids to constantly practice whatever they became famous for
>>27501042
damn he's a pretty smart guy he conveys things really well and uniquely which is ultimately the easiest way to tell if someone is intelligent.
he does seem kinda pompous like he'd be a hard person to be friends with because it would always be a test and if you say/do something stupid he'd deem you worthless. i'm assuming this after listening to him talk about people with average intelligence and disabilities should not be allowed to procreate.
some intelligent people are friendly and understanding of their gift others like him have very little empathy and are arrogant.
>>27501045
i don't think it's always the case. the thing about being is a prodigy is you're great at something with very little work it just appeared. i'm sure there are kids who's parents put htem through the most expensive piano lessons and their mediocre even after years of practice then you have a prodigy who went to three piano lessons and was already at the level of the person who practiced years. that's just how it works.
also has there been a case study on 'where are they know' with child prodigies. i think your presumption of them being average adults is probably pretty accurate but i'd say most of them are in some sort of higher technical field not jsut working at wal mart or something.
>>27501042
He seems like an idle, soulless human computer. He can process information fast but he's completely unphilosophical and uninteresting.
>>27500785
this feel had me feeling like shit ages 16-18
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terence_Tao
>>27501231
> i think your presumption of them being average adults is probably pretty accurate but i'd say most of them are in some sort of higher technical field not jsut working at wal mart or something.
I know in the book "Outliers" by Malcolm Gladwell that he referenced a study done by a some kind of researcher on a bunch of very-high IQ individuals. He combed through tens of thousands of children to find the ones with the highest IQs and studied those at the very top for a while. The results split roughly 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 between failures, normies, and successful professionals. None of them became much like the researcher thought they would.
Some of the kids with lower IQs however(in the 115 - 135 range) did have incredible success like William Shockley.
>read about the Olympic orgies
>imagine being a champion weightlifter and taking a qt gymnasts virginity
>realize i would probably just be alone and get cucked and see my waifu get blacked by some ugandan runner
Man i feel like i never had a coming of age. I just kinda got older and sadder.
I find the fetishisation of child prodigies to be pretty creepy. Same with the fetishisation of 'invention' and 'science'.
There's always something a bit dodgy about the way the phenomenon occurs too, you often have two upper-middle class parents who've simply been able to afford excellent early living conditions for a child, who happens to have very high intelligence, and the parents do everything possible to promote the child to others as a prodigy because it gives them status or something, and other people around the child are forced into a social dynamic of going along with this, feeding the ego of the child and parents, and the whole phenomenon, just to avoid being considered a 'hater' or skeptic. It's like those photos of physically deformed girls on Facebook which get thousands of comments from girls saying how "beautiful" the girl is.
Seems very unhealthy for a child to be considered so 'advanced' above and beyond his peers, before he can even get enough of real experience with his peers to rightly despise them. Seems lonely.
>>27501392
Fetish doesn't mean what you think it does
>>27501310
i mean it makes sense. my friend had a genius level iq. he graduated his sophomore year of highschool and went to college to start studying he was 15 at the time. he wanted to get into genetic engineering and study into immortality.
he got fucked over by genetics schizophrenia which might have been reason his brain was so connected at such a young age. by the time he was 19 he was living at home, smoking two packs of cigarettes a day, and lost in delusions. he took his life three years later.
>>27501443
>google "fetish definition"
an excessive and irrational devotion or commitment to a particular thing.
"men will never understand a woman's fetish for shoes and handbags"
>>27501461
ah haa. sounds like a comedy
>>27501501
>men will never understand womens fetish for shoes
i can say from experience that this isnt true
>>27501443
Fetish doesn't mean what you think it does, baka
:^)
>>27501642
could've seen it coming because his dad was a medicated schizophrenic on disability with a really sedentary lifestyle and alcoholic. the apple hardly ever falls far from the tree.
also the he was weird af exceptionally gifted but definitely off. torturing rabbits dark sense of humor i mean when you're elementary school and kids are laughing having fun then this kid is talking about playful scenarios where someone dies in a comedic way, etc.
Doesn't mean a lion can't kill a human tho
but 90% of the time you're going to get rekt by the human
>>27501721
did he ever play a saxaphone at some point in his life?
like a school band?
I was the number one student in my primary school and then in high school I dropped out because of shit grades.
>>27501763
i think he played bass clarinet maybe saxophone.
It's not too bad being a B student. Was one all through high school and college. I'm normally the guy you never see dead middle on some random ranking for some random event. Cruising through life invisible isn't so bad, though it gets pretty predictable after a while when you know you're never the worst, but there's always a few people better than you wherever room you find yourself in
>have a natural talent for the guitar, can play all sorts of music purely by ear
>can't write my own music for shit, fall to pieces as soon as I try
Cruel.
>>27502398
Do you know any theory?
>>27501042
This seems just like good will hunting
i guess reality does mimic art
>>27500785
>reading about child prodigies
99.99% of prodigies never amount to anything at all (that's real statistics by the way, you can look it up, I'm a scientist).
In fact the only one I (and probably most people) can think of is Mozart, and it's debatable how much of a "child prodigy" he was since he was born into and educated by a musical family
There are some people who are child prodigies but turn out to just be retards within the top 5% that normal people hype up.
Nigga unless you are gauss you aren't truly gifted as a child.
>>27502398
>He calls playing by ear musical talent.
>>27501272
This guy doesn't age either
>>27501024
obviously not a child prodigy.
A girl I went to school was the closest thing to a child prodigy I've met.
In mid-High School she went almost mad. Disillusioned herself with the idea of the West and Capitalist Society. I was (and sorta still am) an ossiboo, so we got along well.
She didn't go to University and still works a pretty low level job in a local cafe. Still fucking smart though. I'm in my last year of a Comp Sci degree and she gets the material better than I sometimes.
I just feel pity for them, honestly.
I was a "prodigy" in the weakest sense of the word. I was above average at math and lived in a very bad school district. I qualified for advanced courses and they couldn't afford to pay for a new teacher, so I just got shuttled to the junior high for a math class every day. That was enough to take me from being reasonably popular to being an outcast in my own grade. Obviously, things were just as bad with the junior high kids.
I can only imagine how lonely life is for a real prodigy.
>>27503633
Not him, but I'm very bad at playing by ear.
>>27504546
What's an ossiboo?
>>27500785
When I was a child all the adults and my friends thought I was a child prodigy and I thought so.
Guess how it turned out.
>>27506786
I am like a weeaboo, but for pre-90s eastern europe instead of japan.
>>27500785
you shouldn't read child pornodigy you sick fuck
>>27500960
I want to be like that but there's a limit to how much you can will yourself to think a certain way.
>>27504546
That doesn't sound like a child prodigy desu.
>>27506882
You mean aesthetically? Or politically? The first I can get, the second means you should kill yourself.
