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Childhoods of exceptional people - by Henrik Karlsson

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Childhoods of exceptional people Let's do more of those Henrik Karlsson Feb 06, 2023 1,727 73 196 Share Virginia Woolf and her sister, Vanessa, in the 1890s Let’s start with one of those insights that are as obvious as they are easy to forget: if you want to master something, you should study the highest achievements of your field. If you want to learn writing, read great writers, etc. But this is not what parents usually do when they think about how to educate their kids. The default for a parent is rather to imitate their peers and outsource the big decisions to bureaucracies. But what would

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