We grow up believing that greatness reveals itself early. The chess prodigy, the child violinist, the teenage Olympian—these ...

"Before the 'private high school' and college classes, I was your average Abercrombie-clad, slightly weird 13-year-old goofing around and taking selfies at the mall with friends," the author writes.

Being identified as a child prodigy could actually hamper the chances of being a high performer later in life, a new study has found. The study from a team led by Professor Arne Güllich, professor of ...

Watching him play badminton with his dad, you'd probably figure Suborno Bari for your typical 12-year-old kid. You'd be very wrong. Mathematics is his passion. "Yeah, most of the time I'm having the ...

International chess masters, Olympic gold medallists and Nobel prize-winning scientists were rarely child prodigies, a review reveals. Likewise, early childhood successes and intense training ...

At age 6, Mozart performed at the court of the Prince-elect Maximilian II of Bavaria. At age 8, Joy Foster represented Jamaica in table tennis at the Caribbean championships in Trinidad. What do the ...