Has anyone read The Element? It states on the cover, "where talent meets passion".
Another one of these books that profiles highly successful people and how they got on their path.
But it makes you wonder if your kid, though highly gifted is in anyway, especially talented.
Apologies to who posted, but someone posted in some topic, about how they skipped several grades but that many of her peers were more successful careerwise now.
There is a girl around the corner here, got into Columbia and has some major flautist is coaching her. She easily spends 3+ hours of her summer days, for the last several years that I have been acquainted, practicing her flute because she wants it. She has a passion to pursue her interest that is something that you can't bottle. Her mother talks to me and wishes the rest of her children had a passion.
DD has been in a gymnastic camp for the last 3 weeks. It turned out to be a major gymnastics center with state and national contenders. I watch some really young kids practicing. DD is having fun but like me, she has closed hips and it would take 2 years of stretching to do what some of these kids do from birth. I don't know what her passion will be, if it is anything.
Is she really smart, yes, is she talented in a few things, yes, does she have passion, passion to spend hours practicing and give up other things? I wonder as I read this book. What will make her pursue something and consume her, like
Bill Gates woke up at 3 am as a 14 year old so he could use the computer at U of Washington.
Any good stories of passion, passion that continues year after year.
Ren
