Today sitting in a cafe I happened to drop an ear into an interesting conversation between two elderly gentlemen. The topic of discussion being are genius made or born. I have read over and over the quote by Thomas Edison " Genius are one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration " which currently was the point of contention between these two eccentrics. As the discussion proceeded, it went into being said that there was a study among american, belgian and korean mothers about what makes their kids good at math. Amazingly, it seems that while belgian and korean moms said that with daily practice they think that their kids can be good of math, american mothers were of the view that there is a gene of talent among each kid which makes them better at a particular thing or not, due to which not being good at math can be blamed on genetic built of a person. If american mothers are to be believed then each man is not equal to another, some are born better than others. Which g...
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