Lately you have been practicing coordinating your arms and knees. You raise your arms, then your knees, squirm about, move forward… oops, you lose your balance! You don’t give up. You prop yourself up again with your arms, raise knees… wait, that’s your butt up in the air, bello.
Persistence - that is an admirable trait that you are learning. Genius is over rated. Of course an IQ score of 190 is not something to be sneezed at, but as Malcolm Gladwell explained in his The Outliers, "knowledge of a boy's IQ is of little help if you are faced with a formful of clever boys." And these days, clever boys seem to be dime a dozen.
Remember the story of the Turtle and the Rabbit which Mommy told you about? The race does not go to the swift, or to the strong. It does not always go either to the Mensa members. The race is mostly won by those who persist, those who strive, and those who do not give up. Mommy used to have a favourite champion figure skater. Her name was Dorothy Hamill. Hamill fell on her face several times before she won the gold medals. Whenever she’d fall, she would sing, “I put myself up, brush myself up, start all over again!”
Remember the story of the Turtle and the Rabbit which Mommy told you about? The race does not go to the swift, or to the strong. It does not always go either to the Mensa members. The race is mostly won by those who persist, those who strive, and those who do not give up. Mommy used to have a favourite champion figure skater. Her name was Dorothy Hamill. Hamill fell on her face several times before she won the gold medals. Whenever she’d fall, she would sing, “I put myself up, brush myself up, start all over again!”
Dear Anton Lee, we are giving you not only an “A” but an “A+” for effort. We have no doubt that very soon you will be crawling faster than the speed of light (in a manner of speaking)!
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