Late Bloomers
“Prodigies are easy. They advertise their genius from the get-go. Late bloomers are hard. They require forbearance and blind faith. (Let’s just be thankful that Cezanne didn’t have a guidance counsellor in high school who looked at his primitive sketches and told him to try accounting.) Whenever we find a late bloomer, we can’t but wonder how many others like him or her we have thwarted because we prematurely judged their talents.” Late Bloomers, Malcolm Gladwell, The New Yorker, October 20, 2008
I needed to read this. Thanks.
Posted by Devorah on 10 November 2008 @ 2pm