" Child prodigies rarely become adult geniuses who change the world ." So says Adam Grant in the Points section in the Dallas Morning News . The thing that holds them back is that they don't learn to be original. Practice makes perfect, but it doesn't make new! "The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies, but rarely compose their own original scores. They focus their energy on consuming existing scientific knowledge, not producing new insights. They conform to codified rules, rather than inventing their own. Read Rabbi Leynor’s complete blog at -- http://tovcenter.blogspot.com/2016/03/what-does-it-take-to-raise-creative.html