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academic acceleration

Kris Abdelmessih · 4 Oct 2026

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  1. Our reading

    Passion often follows exposure and competence rather than preceding them.

    Their wordsPassion doesn't usually come first and then get supported. Usually exposure comes first, then competence (from actually having gone through practice), and passion tends to arrive somewhere after that, because human beings mostly love the things they are good at.

  2. Our reading

    Children are often poor judges of what they will enjoy being skilled at in adulthood.

    Their wordsThe thing is, children are not good judges of what they will be glad to be good at at thirty.

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