/lit/ - Literature

>>13916060
She read stereotypical women's books that mainly feature fictional romance and mystery.
She reads every single day, which makes her more of reader in terms of quantity than myself and probably 95% of this board.
I don't really read for pleasure anymore, so I envy her.

>>8412525
Not OP, but I've read a bit about him.

His parents, especially his father, pressured him from an early age to excel academically. His father wanted him to skip a grade and his father pressured him to accept a scholarship to Harvard so that he could have a successful son, not because he wanted what was best for Ted. At Harvard he lived in the same building as other prodigy types, and even among that crowd of children who had been pressured most of their lives to focus on academics he stood out as extremely focused and a-social.

Ted embodies the burn-out child prodigy. He was brilliant but his father drove him so hard that when he got to actually make decisions for himself, he decided to reject everything his parents wanted for him.

To avoid my son becoming like Kaczynski I would just let him decide what he wanted to do with his life. If Kaczynski had been allowed to have a real childhood he might have come to math on his own and done great work. A lot of the child prodigies you hear about are in the same situation as Kaczynski, and never accomplish anything significant in later life because it was never really their choice.

Anyway, thanks for one of the best threads I've seen on here. Makes me realize how much I hate all of the memes and shitposting.