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by karaterobot 1375 days ago
Did you read on a couple sentences and see this part?

> Later, when opportunities came to publish his thoughts, the written word became more important to him and he found mentors to help him polish his communication skills.

Worthy of note is that he'd published a book by the age of 14, so was probably at least at grade level. Sounds like he just didn't learn things homogeneously, but rather focused on some things before other things.

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And just how much of the "mentoring" is actually just plain old ghost writing?

There are too many red flags and people with agendas here to take much at face value.

You can publish pretty much anything. The hard part is to get one of good publisher houses that can do promo etc.

But publishing on itself does not require anything.

Thins kid also supposedly bought 50000$ by himself at 11.

Financed. He was able to make the payments and I’m guessing the loan was in his parents names.
Contract also had to be done in parents name.