- There is an old saying, “At ten prodigy, at fifteen you are a gifted child, and after twenty you are just a man.
- It is a common phenomenon that a person who is praised as “great” when young becomes mediocre when he or she grows up.
- I myself have known many similar cases, so it is a common concept for adults.
- I wouldn’t be particularly surprised if the child prodigy was mediocre at age 20.
- However, the 10-year-old himself has no experience of observing for himself what the passage of 10 years from “10 years old to 20 years old” brings about.
- The status of “prodigy” is a short-term bonus.
- Adults around you lose interest rather quickly.
- Most adults don’t care about the lives of individual prodigies, they just consume them as topical content.
- If we don’t take advantage of short-term bonuses to create a larger “difference” from the average person, we will become mediocre.
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