Lessons from a 45-year study of super-smart children
Didn&#x27;t finish reading the article because, like so many articles, (1) it equates achievement with intelligence (2) it does not actually seem to tell you how to &quot;raise a genius&quot;.<p>I have seen a lot of lives of highly intelligent people go wrong, and this is the advice I would give: respect high-IQ children intellectually, prepare to lose arguments, but still give them emotional support. It&#x27;s easy to imagine someone is an adult because they argue well, but in my experience intellectual capacity is not related to emotional stability. Both aspects need to be developed.<p>I&#x27;m the godfather of a <i>very</i> intelligent young woman. She is at university now, but regularly drops by to discuss all kinds of things. Achievement is totally unimportant to her, but she is very curious about how the world works. Talking to her is just amazing!