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14yo Engineering Gradute Gets Job at SpaceX
AndyBeez:
Early achievement is just that. Early achievement. Even if by the age of two, a child is placed by child psychology experts in the 'future genius category', being better than everyone else is no guarantee of future success or mental wellbeing in adulthood. Has being a child star worked out well for many, long term?
As other parents, you should never feel inadequate because your children have not addressed the UN climate change committee or reinvented the internet using AI. So what if your 13 year old is not on the front cover of Forbes magazine, you have other metrics to value their worth. Support their interests, but don't turn them into little sociopaths. Especially when there are siblings involved. Fundamentally, wunderkinds only make headlines because of unrealistic parental expectations.
As young kids we dedicated our efforts to collecting badges, belts, pins and school certificates. It's what all kids did. And then we became teenagers and discovered all things to do with money, sex, rock music [electronics] and cosmetic products. Finally, after a period as trainees, apprentices, interns or students, we graduated into the world as tax paying parents, with kids of our own. Kids who collect badges, belts, pins and so on. You failed, you fell over, you got up. It's what all kids should be free and able to do.
Hey teacher ( at university ), leave them kids alone.
.RC.:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on June 17, 2023, 10:57:34 am ---
Once the novelty of being the young genious wears off, you just become yet another engineer. Ok, so you might have graduated and started work 8 years earlier than everyone else, but no one is going to care if you are 24 with 10 years of exerience vs someone who's 32 with the same 10 years of exerience. There is nothing special about you any more, welcome to the real world.
In fact it could become a disadvantage, as they are hiring a very experienced engineer who probably has a young family and wants stability, and you rock up all baby faced, good luck.
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I wonder, these young smart people, do they just peak in their abilities earlier in life, or if nurtured and given the opportunity do they manage to rise above most other people in the same career.
I know it is probably a difficult question as just plain luck comes into it. Perhaps we need a long term study. Get some really smart kids and some not so smart and control their lives to adulthood, so each one can learn at their maximum rate. Make sure other things in life that could derail the study do not get in the way like interest in the opposite/same sex, social life etc. And see if even if some get a head start on the others education wise because of their natural ability, do they just peak earlier, or end up with a greater skill set when they reach their level of incompetence.
And then become famous on the youtube channel "Plainly difficult" The dark side of science.
Miyuki:
--- Quote from: .RC. on June 17, 2023, 10:44:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: EEVblog on June 17, 2023, 10:57:34 am ---
Once the novelty of being the young genious wears off, you just become yet another engineer. Ok, so you might have graduated and started work 8 years earlier than everyone else, but no one is going to care if you are 24 with 10 years of exerience vs someone who's 32 with the same 10 years of exerience. There is nothing special about you any more, welcome to the real world.
In fact it could become a disadvantage, as they are hiring a very experienced engineer who probably has a young family and wants stability, and you rock up all baby faced, good luck.
--- End quote ---
I wonder, these young smart people, do they just peak in their abilities earlier in life, or if nurtured and given the opportunity do they manage to rise above most other people in the same career.
I know it is probably a difficult question as just plain luck comes into it. Perhaps we need a long term study. Get some really smart kids and some not so smart and control their lives to adulthood, so each one can learn at their maximum rate. Make sure other things in life that could derail the study do not get in the way like interest in the opposite/same sex, social life etc. And see if even if some get a head start on the others education wise because of their natural ability, do they just peak earlier, or end up with a greater skill set when they reach their level of incompetence.
And then become famous on the youtube channel "Plainly difficult" The dark side of science.
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Most of the programmers' prodigies I know burned out pretty soon (even in their 20s), some even ended with brain damage, and some just changed to completely unrelated fields, like philosophy or theology.
VK3DRB:
He'll do well until he discovers girls. But if he is a typical engineer, that won't be until he is around 50. And that will be an AI robot ordered off Internet. :popcorn:
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