Page 23 - (DK) How to be a GENIUS?

Child prodigy
Child prodigy
Determination Some people just seem to be born geniuses.
Determination
Garry Kasparov was only 13 when he won the
Born in Poland in 1867, Marie Curie was
Russian junior chess championship in 1976,
determined to be a scientist, even though
and he became the youngest-ever world
such a career was not considered suitable
champion in 1985. He had a natural talent,
for a woman in the 1800s. She fought poverty
but he worked hard to make the most of it.
and prejudice to win two Nobel Prizes for
her pioneering work on radioactivity.

Encouragement
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Broad view
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Jefferson—the main author of the U.S. tennis players. They showed amazing
Declaration of Independence in 1776—was talent from a young age, but they owe a
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a philosopher, archaeologist, architect, and lot of their success to their parents,
inventor, as well as a politician who became who coached and encouraged them to
president of the United States. build on their skills.
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