Range, Chapter One
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Hi, this is Greg Lincoln, and I'm reading from range. Why Generalists? Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein. Chapter one. The Cult of the Head Start one year in four days after World War Two in Europe ended an unconditional surrender. Laszlo Polgar was born in a small town in Hungary, the seed of a new family. He had no grandmothers know grandfathers, no cousins. All had been wiped out in the Holocaust, along with his father's first wife and five Children. Last little group determined to have a family and a special one, he prepped for fatherhood in college by poring over biographies of legendary thinkers from Socrates Toe Einstein. He decided that traditional education was broken, that he could make his own Children into geniuses if he just gave them the right head start. By doing so, he would prove something far greater that any child can be molded for eminence in any discipline. Hey, just needed a wife who would go along with the plan. Laszlo's mother had a friend, and the friend had a daughter, Clara. In 1965 Clara traveled to Budapest, where she met Laszlo in person. Laszlo didn't play hard to get. He spent the first visit telling Claudia that he planned to have six Children and that he would nurture them to brilliance. Clara returned home to her parents with a lukewarm review. She had quote, met a very interesting person but could not imagine marrying him. They continued to exchange letters. They were both teachers and agreed that the school system was frustratingly one size fits all made for producing. Quote the gray average mass unquote. As Laszlo put it. A year and 1/2 of letters later, Clara realized she had a very special pen pal. Laszlo finally wrote a love letter and proposed at the end. They married, moved to Budapest and got toe work. Susan was born in early 1969 and the experiment was on.