I suspect that’s true, it sort of has to be, but then it seems to contradict various anecdotes. There’s a notion of the prodigy as a different type of person,

I suspect that’s true, it sort of has to be, but then it seems to contradict various anecdotes. There’s a notion of the prodigy as a different type of person, a qualitative difference in kind rather than a difference in degree (of effort, iq, focus etc).