An engaging story in Sunday’s Washington Post about 12-year-old prodigy-turned-peace-activist Greg Smith. (He’s about to start work on a PhD.) A much more nuanced look at the trials and tumult of young genius than you often see, with Q&As with the writer and the kid himself.
The author remarks, with a bit of shame, that whenever she talked with Greg, she found herself searching for some flaw in his intellect, “for reasons I can only assume to be some primal survival instinct.” I know what she means; when I read his Q&A, I felt a shameful little burst of glee when I saw he misspelled “oppurtunity.”