Show i ' 4 gibbt :pivn AncmcAU prodioibo : 5 f n ? 2 ' '! v 4Ni ip Nr1 ' ' V ’' v s - i v M i Jvy w £ j A:v- :' t — i r o J v': t fMOM ? W- V f fs o - ' i: v :v f-i '? y to them as the ability to talk You can see feat confidence in Christopher Ifc rarely has stage fright And like ocher prodigies they are oetennmed Bala for example has made up his mind to become the world’s younaest doctor Tiodigies are wonderful Uni- no U versity Prof David Henry Feldman author of Naamft Gambit a study of six prodigies and their families HHiey are ddldien who can achieve at the level of aprofessional in a highly demand-ingfieMost often that fiek is music or chess less frequently it’s math Researchers cant fully explain the prodigy phenomenon Butthevdoknow that promgies live inaculture QuU makes a pike for their gilt and have patents who recognize and nurture it Rom Jade and Yvonne Ng to Moshe and Mi k'' PNfm”lM Shaked there mothers and ftfhencncour-ag- e their children to exed “The parents follow the youustert lead” says Dr Julian Stanley of Johns Hopkins Uhtarety in Maryland Since 19vl he has searched the world for his X stars Lenny’s father a physicist came from a family of Chinese peasant £an&-Dagfaneii fsdier an electrician in rurri Marne only finidied the tunthnade V "T &' i 'v' i' e' ' r Youth Ttaents build an the huge advantage die child already has” Some even put aside their own careers: Maxtha Gauthier quit practicing medicine to stay home with Christopher a VERY SO OFTEN INTO JUST A FEW families me child is bom—a chfyd with prodigious takots Bobby Fischer was ooe: At 15 be was chess's youngest grand master Mozart was another He published four sonatss at 7 ' Now meet Lenny Ng Christopher Gauthier lUShaked BalaAmbanand igiesinthe United States today They've already achieved so much it's almost too easy COVBANDJNSDeHKJrOGIUNBBrEJCAItr YJ ER N I llermndier iImwimiiIw v1' I:?! to forget that they're children ' c ' Lemy earned a perfect math score on the Scholastic Aptitude That a college entrance exam at K) Christopher showed irterest in string instruments at 18 months Tri beat adult chess players in the second grade just months after learning die Balaunderstood calculus asatod- dQer Daphne breezed through grade-scho- ol readers as a Like other prodigies these five know "When you seeapRxfigyyou’re seeing arti'iBiiyflprlMlif enMlboii the genetic material of the parents” Feldman says “But prodigies also are die result of syncfaronjH-- of nature and cuhtne working together: There are many children out three with the potential to do what these five children are doing but diey haven’t been born into the right mony that’s when you’ll findaprodigy” ica The boy waited widi his father for die math contest to start The other con- - FISCHER 21SNMMKIMBA2K |