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At 38 years old, Susan Polgar has reached heights that few women have ever equalled in the chess world. Despite the common assumption that men’s brains are better at understanding spatial relationships, giving them an advantage in games such as chess, Susan went on to become the world’s first grandmaster. Susan’s remarkable abilities have earned her the label of ‘genius’, but her psychologist father, László Polgar, believed that genius was “not born, but made”. Noting that even Mozart received tutelage from his father at a very early age, Polgar set about teaching chess to the five-year-old Susan after she happened upon a chess set in their home. “My father believed that the potential of children was not used optimally,” says Susan.
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On april 01 2008
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The question of how much of our abilities depend on training vs. in-born talent has interested me for a long time. Two good books that explore these issues are "Gifted Children: Myths and Realities" by Ellen Winner and "Genius Explained" by Michael Howe. Another book is the one mentioned in this video - Bring Up Genius! by László Polgar.
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Wasn't this an intriguing documentary? I bought the first two books.
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I'd like to emphasize something Susan said on the matter of FEELING the next movement to be done while playing chess, instead of THINKING and looking into millions of probabilities. It's remarkable that other two genius (from my point of view) in different fields had stated that in other words, isn't it?
"THINKING is the worst mistake a dancer can make... you have to FEEL it."
__ Michael Jackson
"No thinking, no reflecting, Perfect emptiness;
Yet therein something moves, Following its own course."
__ Bruce Lee in his book "Tao of Jeet Kune Do"
"Not being tense but ready. NOT THINKING but not dreaming.
Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement.
It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come."
— Bruce Lee in his book "Tao of Jeet Kune Do"
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