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by jayant_kaushik 1390 days ago
Just read the wiki. What a great inspiration Mr. Polgar. I have quiet a few nephew and nieces (all below 10) and that allows me to see the pattern. I see that we need to create a list of skills that a kid should know by a certain age and teach them- it sky rockets their level of confidence and they are able to achieve more faster in any sphere of life. Specialising in a few areas sounds good and till now I have thought about making my kids specialise in astronomy as I think by the time they turn 20, we would have landed on Mars and lots of ISS and talented people would be required to run them / go there. The second option is - AI ( but don’t know if we attain AGI, would the world need any talent in this space) So yes, I think about fatherhood even though I’m not there yet. Talking about education system, it’s we the people who have created it to outsource the job of rearing the kid to the schools. So they can learn the skills demanded by the world to survive. We do that to focus on our career, dreams, or just to chill. And schools are doing a terrible job world over. In