The study included healthy, educated adults who took standard tests of memory, reasoning and perception at the outset and at some point over the next seven years.
No matter how brilliant you are, regardless of the fact that you were building your own circuit boards as a kid and made straight A’s in comp sci, real-world experience still counts.
Birds began to chatter. A dozen young people practiced song-and-dance routines for an afternoon rally, like cheerleaders marooned in the Indian forest.
Instead of helping them from the very beginning, parents should leave their children to think independently about how to deal with the problems they encounter.