Belgium’s 15-year-old prodigy earns PhD in quantum physics
https://www.brusselstimes.com/1846332/belgiums-15-year-old-prodigy-earns-phd-in-quantum-physics
https://www.brusselstimes.com/1846332/belgiums-15-year-old-prodigy-earns-phd-in-quantum-physics
18 Comments
fubarx@lemmy.world · 31 pts · 287d
Every time I see stories like this I feel sorry for the kid. Never learning to socialize with other kids their own age, and not getting taken seriously by adults until they're much older.
iii@mander.xyz · 12 pts · 287d
Even when going through a normal education system, this would not happen. The difference in both ability and interests is so large that there's little shared basis for socialization. This way there's at least some socialization.
Why do you think that's the case?
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today · 10 pts · 287d
Nah, her educational track allowed her to skip right past the "She thinks she's sooo smart. Let's show her she's not so smart," phase of her life, disappointing many student and teacher bullies.
iii@mander.xyz · 1 pts · 287d
Sad truth
recklessengagement@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 287d
And it usually turns out there were a number of loopholes or special exceptions made. Every rich family wants to have a "child prodigy"
Still extremely impressive and way smarter than any of us, but the gap is not as drastic as it is often made out to be
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 286d
everything costs a cost.
is it better to be 'normal' than be extraordinary? you don't know if this person is unhappy. be careful projecting your own life experience onto other people. this girl may be way happier than you. not everyone needs the same level of socialization or has the same goals/priorities in life.
Dingleberrydipndots@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 286d
Yeah, thats why she can be smart. Most people are stupid, some are very stupid. Staying away from stupid does wonders for mental clarity.
Personnel anecdot here, my brothers and I were homeschooled and didn't engage with many that werent on the same accelerated curriculum we were on. We didn't have to suffer from dumb downed lessons and constant repetitive busy work.
I usually finnished my weeks work of school in 2-4 days. I never understood how kids stayed busy at school all the time?
Anyway, thats all to say that, socializing can be done correctly, or to one's own detriment.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 286d
What shape is the earth?
Dingleberrydipndots@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 286d
The earth is an oblate spheroid. It bulges at the equator due to the centrifugal force.
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 286d
Aight just checking what kind of home school
Dingleberrydipndots@lemmy.world · -2 pts · 285d
How many sex are there?
Lauchmelder@feddit.org · 6 pts · 285d
only the one I have with ur mum
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 286d
same here. socialization made me dumber and it actively discouraged learning and achievement.
becoming anti-social was the best thing I ever did for my mental health, and academics. my grades went from Cs to As once I stopped wasting time getting drunk with people who didn't give a shit about me.
not everyone needs to be constantly social. i'm way happier spending my time alone being a nerd learning stuff, most socialization makes me horrible depressed because it's so banal and trite and petty. i don't enjoy gossiping and trash talking other people.
Dingleberrydipndots@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 286d
Yeah exactly, seems like so many just want drama.
echo@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 287d
Incredibly smart and without the wisdom to understand that extending the lifespan is actually a very bad thing in nearly every conceivable way.
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 13 pts · 287d
Jesse, what the hell are you talking about?
skibidi@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 287d
In the article, the kid himself explains that he is doing all this because he wants to create support humans who are biologically immortal
acockworkorange@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 287d
And that's a physics PhD? Huh. Thanks. Yeah, he needs guidance.