That assumes pressure is the way to raise gifted kids. What I mean is nobody seems to look into proven ways to "produce" gifted kids. If you google for Polgar,

That assumes pressure is the way to raise gifted kids. What I mean is nobody seems to look into proven ways to "produce" gifted kids. If you google for Polgar, only few things come up, mostly chess related, which isn't the point at all. His book is out of print, not sure if it was ever even translated to English (he is Hungarian). That is what I mean by nobody seems to want to discuss it. Not only Polgar, also the other examples I read about in "Bounce" (for example there was apparently a Russian "factory" for tennis stars). Tiger mom made a splash, but I think that was because people wish they could just force their kids to be brilliant. I actually don't think "my kid played piano in [some famous concert hall]" is worth destroying the soul of your kid for. But what if the some technique (non-soul destroying) could be used to raise people who are brilliant in fighting cancer or programming social networks? You are right, everybody worries about making their kids succeed, but people don't seem to look at the right aspects of it. They just follow the path layed out by schools, to put more pressure on rote learning.