My daughter is the perfect example of a slow person.
She had a very traumatic childhood before she came to live with us, so her first four years, the years when your brain learns how to learn, were pretty much lost. Years of tutors, summer school, and everyone in the family working with her got her through school.
Now she is just like everyone else and better than many people.
She holds down a full time job, has a lovely home, goes on fantastic vacations and is getting married next summer.
She has never stopped learning.
Prodigies are people whose brains learn faster than most of us do, in ways we don't completely understand yet, but if they are not brought up correctly they might lack social skills, or other skills the rest of us take for granted.
Most truly happy, successful people grow up learning how to navigate the world. Without that it doesn't matter how good looking you are, or even how talented, because if you can't get along on your own and with the people around you, life is hard. Money can only buy so many things for so long. After that people catch on and you become an outcast.
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