Lazlo didn't choose chess. Lazlo chose math, but Susan showed tons of interest in chess. Lazlo was then like "eh close enough" and everything pivoted from math to chess.
@@gooddogtrainingservices5351 No. The theory isn't that you can make your child be a prodigy in anything, it is that you can make your child a prodigy in things they are interested in. If you can't make math a game for the kid, you can't test the theory out.
The difference is that they focus on exams more rather than mastering subjects. So they kids only get better at sitting and studying in a routine. Things like out of the box/creative thinking suffers.
İkr! But in his case there was only two options: first they become geniuses or second they become normal people that like studying 😂😂 so no chances of raising psychopaths
Ah testing behavioral patterns and responses to negative stimuli. Would love to read the formal report of this one, unless they programmed that into you😅
Spoiling kids is worse In my opinion it is better to provide kid with toys but set limit on how expensive it can be In teenage if they ask provide them with half of the cost of the thing they want and make them write cost of things in a diary so when they will find a job ask them to pay it back It will make them better at finance management
@@nateionalbank11 Friends? You mean people to eat lunch with? Most people were just acquainted out of convenience, I don't see 99% of the people I went to school with anymore. You can also make friends at work, uni, with your next door neighbour, being able to make friends doesn't = fun learning environment.
this really makes me feel better. my son wants to be an astrophysicist. I'm homeschooling him and guiding him toward this career and everyone says I'm fucking up because he needs broad education. but he soaks information up for FUN. he's 10 and it's literally like I can't teach him anything he doesn't already know from following his passion for learning. I feel like letting them guide their education and path is extremely important as well. if it's their passion, it's like a fire sets in them that can't be put out.
That’s awesome actually. I think as long as the SOCIAL skills required to navigate relationships are ingrained (i.e. how to communicate in person, writing skills, basic etiquette, etc.) your child will do amazing in all sorts of wonderful ways. He’s lucky to have a wonderful and loving mother like you in his life. So many kids miss out.
Be wary, there are very few jobs in astronomy/astrophysics. I'm leaving the field after getting my phd for software engineering since the job market is so cutthroat that you need a postdoc or Ivy league PhD to even be considered for a tenure-track professor.
My first friend when I was really little was a math genius, he just knew the answers, couldn't explain it. After he started going to public school, he lost that ability. They taught it out of him.
This forever. Nurture is the most powerful thing. It will inspire your children and make them confident enough to take risks and reach for success at new heights.
I was actually part of his selected few kids that he thought when I was 6-8 years old. Every Sunday morning from 7-11am we had classes and chess lessons (with his special star chess invention) brilliant guy. Definitely learnt things that I still live by to this day 15+ years later.
Thats because leonardo is a genius. This video is more about raising experts in a specific field, or at least people that find a lot of interest in that field
he was studying and learning. He was probably not a "genius" simultaneously in all subjects. In different periods of life he was a "genius" in 1 thing(my guess) Because to be a genius u must be obsessed with something. But who knows ... life is unfair and some people are born with VERY high intellect and their brains develop very strong learning patterns that simply out-manuever the average people. Imagine if someone tried to create a Genius of people that became Geniuses from poor background and averagely educated parents. But also, who knows? What if someone tried to Teach Nikola Tesla how to be a genius. Maybe he woudnt have become what he became if he was wealthy and nurtured vast knowledge by his parents from young age or maybe he would have became even bigger. Who tf knows? we have no data of such ideas to say it for right. Its very complex
@@WhitePerson- he would have been even greater i believe. Raw talent nurtured well will outdo raw talent that struggles its way to its potential. There are ofcourse exceptions to this rule but those are exceptions. Conducive environments with the right push for growth are good for all living beings to grow and exceed their potential. Dense vegetation in rainforests is the norm, cactus growing extremely well in the desert is an exception.
@@ared4579 no. Babies don't already have an established understanding of grammar, syntax, comparative vocabulary etc. Babies start with nothing and become far more skilled in a new language than even the greatest language learners will.
We’re very good at spotting patterns and we’ve developed better learning strategies than toddlers and preschoolers, for example adults recognizing Hermann Ebbinghaus Forgetting Curve while babies and toddler didn't have any idea about how and why did they forget and what causing them to forget
This... actually works. My dad read me the entire Websters dictionary at age 4. In the 3rd grade I had a college level vocabulary. The issue was my dad read me the dictionary, he didn't make me read it, so I know the meaning to just a huge amount of words... but I can't spell very well. Even still throughout school teachers could see there was a lot of work I wasn't doing yet still aceing the tests. Eventhough I had 98% on average of correct answers on my tests the teachers would give me I's for grades. I means incomplete, it's the same as if you did nothing at all. Until high school when they decided to test me. My I.Q. in high school was 152. They took me out of special Ed or what they called "resource" class and put me in AP physics and chemistry. I took to it like a duck to water. Just sucked they waited till Jr. year to do it...
Because neither skills are really applicable to intelligence and can be learnt to a respectable level without intelligence or even particular aptitude. This guy was an idiot
I was going to say you are wrong because both my parents are genius scientists and I barley passed math then I remembered my sister is the smartest in her grade 😂
Maybe... There's no proof they had a good childhood or are high in emotional intelligence or social intelligence- or had a variety of friendships while growing up. We just know that he was focused on their learning ability. They may have had other interests and talents, but their dad was determined to make them chess prodigies to prove his own theory. It's far better to be a well rounded, mentally healthy adult with stable relationships rather than be a genius who can't function.
@@bodyofhope I agree. Additionally, being a chess prodigy does not make you a genius. There are plenty of parents who shove learning down their kids throats to make it seem like they created something spectacular.
@@bodyofhope well if you listened to the video, the final element in his theory was to make learning fun. I have a Child Development Associate and this is essential to all children to help them grow in every aspect normally and effectively. Play teaches children how to be curious, keep an open mind, create new ideas, and socialize. In my opinion, having siblings also builds these skills so they learn to share and communicate with others. I also don’t know how you can say there’s no proof of them having a good childhood when they are now adults who can answer that question if you ask directly and you can experience for yourself if they developed socially well.
Wow, so I don’t feel so bad anymore about my parenting skills lol. I put my daughter in gymnastics at 4, she loves it because it’s fun for her, and that’s the only extracurricular activity she works on for now. Thank you for this ❤️ hopefully she’ll stick to it and want to go far with her abilities.
All that matter is if the child likes it. My mom put me in ballet school at 5, I didn't like it so I stopped after a few years. If they had put me in track and field, on the other hand, who knows where I'd be by now.
Yep just by listening to what your kid says about it, you're on the right track! You sound like a wonderful parent. And good for letting her focus on gymnastics. Cos some may be tempted to throw in piano violin math lessona everything else and kid just end up being overwhelmed and mediocre in everything. Anyway I hope the best for you and your daughter and that she'll be able to achieve her dreams
I got hit with that smart kid syndrome. Smart enough to not have to study, or even sleep in class, still get straight A's. Would ultimately become my downfall. Couldn't form study habits and was unable to get serious. Did shitty in college. Self esteem took a huge hit because I let the grades define me. Took a while to recover from that, still haven't gotten any kind of degree. I found work that I like to do, and can support my family. It just feels like I fucked myself over because I let everyone's reassurance in me go to my head. I see my own kids and how they are very intelligent for their ages and I know I can't let them be so unfocused as I was.
I vibe, with this. I'm currently in a situation where I need to study constantly, but I'm confused about where to start because I've never had to before.
@@polarbear4696 also when it comes to learning languages, once you learn more than one, it becomes much easier to add a third, fourth, etc. because you tend to have a different (and deeper/more functional) understanding of how languages work than people who only speak one
Emotional intelligence is the most important thing to have and that is definitely something that is taught/learned, not born with. There’s a lot more to life than being good at math, chess, speaking different languages, etc. All of that is meaningless if you’re always frustrated/emotional/detached. Take care
Many of the core parts of 'emotional intelligence' are really just personality traits, many of which have been demonstrated to have a very significant genetic basis
well if someone has no interest in something like anatomy they won’t learn it very well. schools could add something as simple as “why do we have ears? how did we develop eyes to see if we didn’t know we could have vision?” things like that to make the student want to learn the answer
I may have unintentionally done this to my little brother. When he was around 3-4 years old, I started playing school with him, teaching him math using my old school books and educational materials, and I helped him just like a teacher would, while making it fun for him. In the end, he ended up advancing two classes in school due to his past educational playtime.
When I was little, my older sister made a huge workbook containing problems on several subjects. It was genuinely pretty fun, I loved it. And the fact that I could switch between subjects when bored and the whole thing was split into bite-sized problems was a MASSIVE factor in its success. Needless to say, I was really ahead in school for a good while
I did this with my brother! I taught him Multiplication. When he got to that in math my mother was surprised that he already knew it! He told her that I had taught him when we played school! 😀
@morgan1027 I mean usually when you have a deep understanding of one topic, you can use the information you know of that topic to make other topics easier. Being amazing at one thing can make everything else easier.
@morgan1027 an example might be how a really good architect is inevitably going to be a decent artist, engineer, and have good understanding of math, city planning, etc. of course it isn’t the same for everything and I don’t totally agree with the strat because children deserve a bit of freedom but I can see what they mean is all
What's weird is, this is intuitive. like, I already knew. But because life isn't about being specialized and *only* being specialized in one thing, I never followed that gut feeling.
You see, the problem is that people will naturally have an aptitude for particular fields. But there is literally no way to know what someone could be theoretically their best at until its way too late to do this kind of thing.
Wait, that really Judith's father? When i hear hungarian named Polgar i instantly think about Judith Polgar. That woman is a beast in chess. Not only she's the GOAT of woman chess, she's also broke the record for the youngest GM at that time. Previously held by Fischer, who's at that time considered to be the most talented player ever
I'm gonna use this as a dad joke.. I know about 5 different languages. There's English, German, Spanish, French, and recently I learned there's a language called "eye-talian"
One of his daughters was sorta my chess coach, during the brief time as a kid that I thought I'd get really into chess. I enjoy chess, but didn't have the discipline to care about the strategy too much, so I was mediocre in all of my tournaments. Still was cool to be around and learn from Susan Polgar
I would say you have a very normal mindset. I also think that if you put your mind to it you can achieve more than you can imagine, but at the same time it doesn't always make sense. If you become a chess star you can earn lots of money, but at the same time it doesn't make sense to put energy into one thing alone. What if chess becomes unpopular all of the sudden? Or what if you are in danger, chess skills won't help surviving. I'm notorious for being mediocre at almost everything that I do and try, but everyday I still choose that over working on one skill alone. I have done so many things and I have incredible wide-spread knowledge, so much so that many of my professors in uni think of me as one of the smartest in the class, but when they see my mediocre exams they ask me what went wrong. I hate to explain to them that I'm a mediocre student and that I just have mediocre interest in all of the things that I do. People always come to me to ask me stuff, but I can't help them most of the time. They always get a wrong picture of me, because I have knowledge outside of what they explain to the class or ask questions that are "outside the box". It's a curse and a blessing at the same time.
I spend so much time educating/playing with my 13 month old. Children LOVE to learn when it's presented in the correct way. My child can say/point to almost any color (he'll on his own point to a blue car and shout, "buuu!" because he can't quite get the B-L combo down), can name and point to any animal ("dog-a," and "bull," are his favorite so far), he knew simple body parts (nose, eyes, mouth, chin) when he was 9 months old, and he just recently began talking in 2 word sentences. He asks questions like, "You good?" He'll point out and say, "Dirty," about an item that is dirty, and yesterday he wanted to go outside so he came up to me, shouted, "Let's goooo!!!" then went to the window, pointed outside and kept repeating, "Go, go, go, go," until I put him in his stroller and we went on a walk. He was THRILLED when he first got in his stroller. Could be a combination of him being naturally smart and that I use gentle encouragement and super fun play to teach him. Children very much are like sponges and they absorb anything and everything they are taught.
I think there is probably something to this, if you read about Nikola Tesla's upbringing, his mother was a very smart woman who spent a lot of time getting him to do unusual mental exercises as a child. He spoke about how she had him play a game with her every day where he would mentally visualize shapes and rotate them in his mind, creating as much detail as possible. And the guy grew up to be one of the worlds greatest geniuses.
If you are born a genius that is genetics he should not have tested his theory on his own kids seeing as how he was also an intellectual it does not disprove genetics playing a factor this is such a flawed experiment if you can make a genius try this on an idiots child. Every person has a certain ability to learn and some people are better at learning then others and that part has to do with genetics you can force knowledge into your head by studying religiously but some people read the material once and never need to study. Some people are born with a learning advantage.
yeah sorry the guy is a con man >insignificant sample size >no control group >no controlling for environmental, social or genetic factors >no proof of changing IQ over time None of the Polgar women were particularly brilliant at chess too. What have his "genius" daughters accomplished? why doesn't he set up a genius school if he figured out how to make anyone a genius? best part is how he "didn't get around" to adopting some black children to prove it after it worked for his daughters and chess which again is an extremely limited proving grounds. he probably wouldn't get the results he wanted that's why lmao
My dad taught me maths at a very young age, im so thankful for that because up until college, I found maths extremely easy to pick up and was way ahead of the class, I got consistent A grades and never had to study. Ofcourse that eventually ended when I hit college and found it as hard as everyone else
Personally I have gotten better at maths as I've aged, when I was younger I was average but at some point it clicked and I became really good at logical problem solving
@@bobfg3130 I knew a guy in elementary school that was top 10 smartest kids in Canada. A true genius. Now he's a regular guy that gets stoned and kills video games. I always thought it was hilarious, but yeah they just become normal people.
@@bobbydigital4961 In the end all that matters is if they can lead a comfortable life. If that guy has enough money that doesn't have to work anymore....that's all he needs. That or a constant source of income that is large enough.
Dad introduced me to computers at 7 years old. 20+ years later, and I own one of the best electronic small business in town going 8+years now in business
My son was born in front of a computer with his dad at the helm and 23 years later he's had a psychotic break and lives with him in a one traffic light town on food stamps and assistance.
I think my dad knew this and he used it on me. I’m in uni and still doing good but I feel burnt out so if you’re going to do this to your child be very careful please.
We keep throwing educational toys at my niblings. One of them got Minecraft for his birthday, and the version he got made it so he could program in java. His parents didn't know what he was doing. He's 6.
@@salj.5459 i guess it depends on how old are you, if you dont mind, how old are you? im 21 so i only heard of her because i play chess, but i think people who are in their 50s or 60s may have heard of her from cnn or something, im not 100% sure but since she was so good i think its possible that she appeared in newspapers or the tv back in the day.
The third one is by far the most important. I don't remember the full story but around the 1900s a couple of geniuses in Europe had a child and raised him to also be a genius but he ended up being very frustrated and hating how strict his parents were.
@@XiaoKyonko Looked him up, yeah I think that's the person. I read about them years ago so I can't remember the name but everything I remember about the story matches.
I remember my mum talking about the Polgár girls, because they were neighbors, and she knew László a bit, and was amazed by their achievements. I lived my first 17 thinking that they were just some local geniuses, but after I mentioned it to one of my friends, she freaked out and I kind of realized that they were a pretty big deal.
My parents raised me like this. I know a total of almost 13 languages. I never really noticed it, for example I always watched kids shows in their original language with English subtitles (English isn’t my first language but it’s the first one I learned). And they made it fun for me so I even today still learn new languages. Can’t recommend it, it is cool but also confusing (at least the language thing) because my mind doesn’t have a default Language. I can’t even count to 100 and stay in one language.
I speak multiple languages too, I'd say it's better than knowing just one, but I'd say that it's better if you focus just one a lot. I'm learning IT so learning the same words in different languages or knowing something in one but not the other can be frustrating, so 1 would probably be best for more advanced or feild specific stuff.
@@lauranolastnamegiven3385 depends on what topic the dream is about. Family in danish, school in French, friends in Korean, internet stuff in English, nightmares in Italian etc. I actually rarely dream in my own language (German) mainly because I don’t like it as much as the others😅
As a kid I was put in the learning difficulties programs and all sorts because apparently I was thick as shit and they didn’t wanna deal with me. I never learnt anything as a result. In retaliation my grandad used to give me books that he had already read, and make it a game for me to absorb as much of the book as I possibly can in the shortest amount of time. He used to give me real thick books for someone my age, I was reading Harry Potter at age 6-7 for example, and it showed that I wasn’t as dumb as they said I was. It got to the point where I could read the first Harry Potter book (or something of equal thickness), in a single day, and still retain a lot of the information from the book, fiction or non fiction. This helped me when I was doing my GCSEs and A-Levels, where I never studied, but consistently scored As because I could read and retain something instantly. Of course my memory wasn’t completely perfect, no one’s is, but I had exercised my hippocampus so much as a kid that it made me able to retain information on first glance. Another thing my grandad used to do was randomly shout sums and times tables at me, and time how long it took me, scoring it on a chart. I got better and better over time, and went from struggling to do mental arithmetic, to refusing to use a calculator as it would take me longer to type in than to work it out mentally. Genius isn’t born. Sure, you can have a predisposition that can put you in good or bad positions for learning in a classroom (ADHD or Autism for example can slow the rate of learning due to internal factors for example), but that means nothing.
@@dylanhunt5655 Language difficulty is usually determined by how far it is from your native/strongest language, so that is subjective. On another note, hungarian has no similar language groups, and isn't a german/latin derivative, so for most of the world its hard.
Daughter: who am I dad? Laszlo: you're my test specimen Dau: but you still love me right? Laszlo: of course, I love you as my test specimen. Dau2: what about me? Laszlo: as of now you're a spare.
Same, I was insanely good at drawing when I was a kid (5ys old) I can look at something and draw it immediately. Now I'm a "diamond LOL" player 🤣 trying to reach master🤣🤣.
Me starting piano at 8, getting a full scholarship and reaching grade 4 within 6 months. My mother finding it inconvenient to drive 15 minutes to a free class twice a week and refusing to get a keyboard for at home because it's noisy. I'm still grade 4 21 years later, my talent and passion died there on the floor of that musty welfare apartment, much like I expect my mother to do one day.
Being a "genius" leads to big problems in a person's social development. My mom used to be a primary-school teacher. She started teaching me to read before I could even walk, and it was fun to play with words. By the time I was 3, I could read and comprehend at a 4th grade level, in all directions including backwards and upside-down. When I was 9, I was reading and comprehending at a 3rd year university level. School wasn't challenging enough, even with special enrichment sessions, so I'd finish my schoolwork very quickly, then draw to pass the time. When you're a child prodigy, adults marvel at you, and encourage you to demonstrate your amazing talent. But being a child prodigy makes you a pariah to other kids your age. You can't connect with them, and they make it clear they don't want you around. And when you get old enough that most people can do what made you so special, nobody cares what you do. I can understand why Mozart had such a difficult adulthood, and ended up the way he did.
Well, not all parents are good at not only making something fun, but keeping it fun. I have a friend who's family had 3 kids and the first one they taught since he was young to play soccer and he was great and loved it but he was deaf so he didn't meet his full potential or find a living in soccer like he could have if he wasn't deaf and struggles with finding something he can strive in since he was evenly taught everything else. The second always felt like he was in his brother's footsteps and even though he enjoyed soccer through high school, he felt more original doing something he enjoyed and wasn't compared to like theater which he enjoyed. The third kid liked soccer from the start at around 3 or 4 years old but the parents were not as passionate about teaching it at that point or making it fun but just pressured her into being their last chance at a soccer star and after being really annoying playing soccer and her parents still having har play (her dad was the coach) she refused to play not even 3 or 4 years later. So actually, don't force your kids to like or become good at something quickly just to meet your agenda. See what they naturally like, go off of that, and have at least one backup plan. Sure you can encourage them to stay loyal to something like a sport, but give them some freedom too!
"Make it feel like a game" Asian parents: I forgot the part where that's my problem Edit: please guys this is a joke I'm sorry if this shit gets some people offended ;-;
I was convinced we’re only who we’re shaped into being, but then I went to visit my father for the first time as an adult I was surprised to see how alike we were even if he was absent in my upbringing. He even spoke similarly and responded similarly to my mother.
Making learning fun is probably the most important. Everyone has classes that feel like a slog and you come out not knowing a damn thing, but when you find that one thing on your own it can sometimes enthrall you with information.
Idea to turn languages into games: - Story books in your target languages - Word puzzles, scrabble, and the like for target languages - Treasure hunting where all the clues are written in the target languages
They decided to have daughters for the sake of the experiment. It just shows how powerful subconscious mind and childhood really is. I still can't remember where I read his entire story. It was mind blowing, literally lol
I think being a prodigy in one specific thing from childhood is worse than knowing a bit about a lot of things, then narrowing down your interests as you get older. If you're a prodigy, people would be mad if you quit that thing because you're "ruining your potential".
