I think you have to consider that "prodigious" doesn't necessarily mean Mozart like piano or cancer research in the lab at 6! When I started thinking about it, my DS has a very clear prodigious talent for Pokemon ;-) He has memorized nearly 500 cards, the strengths, weaknesses, hit points etc. Is it going to win him a Nobel Prize? No... but Pokemon is just his thing right now. That talent will likely later transfer to chemistry formulas or math or something else slightly more useful!