Development here follows Gagné-like honesty: aptitudes, practice and catalysts. Prodigies is not a finished essence.
Windows differ by domain. A closed sport window is not a closed writing window. Read the clocks.
Stages
- Date the work
Is it adult-level this month?
Bar.
- Map the unevenness
What is still child-aged?
Winner.
- Audit the hours
Who organises the firm?
Bloom.
- Find a true peer
Even one.
Isolation.
- Set publicity rules
Consent.
Ethics.
- Plan a non-domain life
Off-ramp.
Forecast humility.
Levers
- True-level teacher — Without it, the file stalls or harms.
- Peer match — Hollingworth.
- Publicity gate — Extraction control.
- Rest — A body still growing.
- Adult-path humility — Simonton.
Windows
- The prodigy years themselves — The definition lives here.
- Adolescence — When many files break or deepen.
- Early adulthood — The noisy forecast moment.
- Later life — Some never were prodigies — see late-bloomers.
Supports
- Specialist schools (예고, Menuhin, физмат) — True-level peers — with harvest risks.
- Feldman/Winner on the staff shelf — A vocabulary besides “wow”.
- Family-support ethics boards in media — Rare, needed.
- SMPY-type domain tests — When the domain is maths, not a stage.
Prodigies: catalysts and windows do the daily work. Destiny talk is the failure mode.