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Originally Posted by Skybird
If the video tells me one thing, that not so much that he is autiostic, but that he has a very big ego and boasts with self-confidence.  At least on the surface. What it looks like inside of somebody - is always a different thing, isn't it. |
The main characteristic of prodigies is that they are extremely good at learning, especially rote learning, which makes them academically very fast up to about post-grad level. After that they almost invariably peter out, when they have to start applying that learning to innovative thinking.