[minimaxir]

Isn't 19 too old to be considered a "wunderkind," per the article title? It's hard to consider someone to be a child prodigy when they're legally an adult.

EDIT: Not criticizing the article, I'm just confused with the language.

[pc86]

One of the less literal definitions is "one who succeeds in a competitive or highly difficult field or profession at an early age"[0]

[0] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wunderkind

[randomdata]

19 doesn't seem particularly young though. Even some people who explore post-secondary educations after high school will be out in the workforce by that age.

[pc86]

I don't mean this as snarkily as it's probably going to sound.

How old are you?

[chc]

That hardly seems relevant. I'm far older than most figure skaters, but I still feel quite confident in the fact that 19 is not a particularly young age for a woman to become a figure skating champion. In fact, doing it 10 years later would actually be more noteworthy.

[randomdata]

Old enough to have been 19 many years ago. Its young on the timescale of the human lifespan, certainly, but by 19 one has the opportunity to be already fully established in society and industry. You expect people to be working on amazing things by that time. Any greatness that may come from that work does not seem particularly unusual to me.

I am actually quite surprised that there has been such negative reaction to my comment. When does one age beyond the "wonder years" if not by 19?

[RougeFemme]

True, he's not exactly a wunderkind (though he started "starting-up" in his early teens). But his backstory is more "bootstrappy" than some of the others. . .working-class family from Bosnia...started his successful company in Bosnia and returned to US. The wunderkind points he loses for being 19 are offset by the points for his more humble roots, I think.

[CamperBob2]

Too young to be considered a wunderkind or a failure, I'd say.