Does growing up poor harm brain development?

Re:Does growing up poor harm brain development? by chaosbutters on Monday May 07, 2018 @02:10PM (#17014970)

The typical answers are: education, military, sports, entertainment. You either need to work hard in education or go join the military and survive or be naturally gifted in sports/music.

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Re:Does growing up poor harm brain development? by fao_ on Monday May 07, 2018 @03:22PM (#17015638)

> or be naturally gifted in sports/music.

Almost all of the people I have seen called 'gifted' in music are ordinary people that were given the chance to develop in music, both through their parents, and through things like council-funded music/orchestral programs, etc.

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Re:Does growing up poor harm brain development? by empath75 on Monday May 07, 2018 @03:39PM (#17015792)

All the people I know who have been successful in music worked their asses off at it. It takes a special kind of personality to practice by yourself for hours and hours in search for perfection while still having he ability to connect with other people emotionally.

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Re:Does growing up poor harm brain development? by erikpukinskis on Tuesday May 08, 2018 @07:39PM (#17026316)

That’s interesting, I had never considered the contradiction in that.

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Re:Does growing up poor harm brain development? by zuck9 on Monday May 07, 2018 @03:15PM (#17015576)

> be naturally gifted in sports/music

By this are you referring to ease in college/scholarship acceptance?

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