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Why there's no such thing as a gifted child

11 mins | Sep 7, 2017
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If hard work can get you to the top, why do we bother with labels like genius? Wendy Berliner uses the example of Maryam Mirzakhani, the celebrated mathematician who tragically passed away at the early age of 40, to explore whether there is anything called naturally gifted.

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