Originally Posted by Dude
Earlier, I made the point about how gifted kids can leap forward in athletics just as they do with everything else, and we all (coaches and parents) saw my DD7 do just that in soccer last year. She showed up at practice one day as a different player, and carried it on from there.

MIT has one of the top ballroom dance teams in the country. It's not because nerds intrinsically make better dancers; it's because nerds are really, really good at analyzing the complicated body mechanics of moving two people through space.