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People who are in sports and music are an order of magnitude better when they start at a very young age and keep practicing methodically their whole life. If th
by Geee 6y ago
People who are in sports and music are an order of magnitude better when they start at a very young age and keep practicing methodically their whole life. If they didn't start at young age, no amount of practice will be enough to catch up. There's some part of the brain that is able to specialize before certain age.
I've been wondering if this would apply to other fields as well. What if someone starts programming at 5 years old and keeps practicing for 5 hours a day?
Maybe that's what's required to get the real genius out of people. I might be wrong but I think there used to be more extraordinary talent before the modern school system.
- finder83 6y agoThis is completely anecdotal, but my brother first taught me to program when I was 5. I definitely didn't practice for 5 hours a day, but kept programming over the years and am a programmer now. I'm a senior programmer but am pretty average in my estimation. I maybe QA test things better than the average programmer but I am not what I'd consider a 10x programmer or anything. I've met programmers who started later in life and are better than I am. Maybe the only benefit I have is that I'm usually decent at architecting systems. With that said, there are plenty of kids who start piano early and never really become virtuosos. It may help to become a genius if you start earlier, but it still seems to be rare.