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We are pretty sure that learning & hard work is important for everyone, no matter how genius.
We suspect that focusing on innate aptitude encourages laziness and/or learned helplessness.
And of course, lastly, you can't change it.
It just doesn't seem that productive to worry about how genetically gifted you are, one way or the other. Potentially even detrimental.
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We are pretty sure that learning & hard work is important for everyone, no matter how genius.
We suspect that focusing on innate aptitude encourages laziness and/or learned helplessness.
And of course, lastly, you can't change it.
It just doesn't seem that productive to worry about how genetically gifted you are, one way or the other. Potentially even detrimental.