{"id":227448,"date":"2025-12-19T01:39:30","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/are-talented-youth-nurtured-the-wrong-way-top-performers-develop-differently-than-assumed-says-study"},"modified":"2025-12-19T01:39:30","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T07:39:30","slug":"are-talented-youth-nurtured-the-wrong-way-top-performers-develop-differently-than-assumed-says-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/12\/are-talented-youth-nurtured-the-wrong-way-top-performers-develop-differently-than-assumed-says-study","title":{"rendered":"Are talented youth nurtured the wrong way? Top performers develop differently than assumed, says study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/are-talented-youth-nurtured-the-wrong-way-top-performers-develop-differently-than-assumed-says-study2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Traditional research into giftedness and expertise assumes that the key factors to develop outstanding achievements are early performance (e.g., in a school subject, sport, or in concerts) and corresponding abilities (e.g., intelligence, motor skills, musicality) along with many years of intensive training in a discipline. Accordingly, talent programs typically aim to select the top-performing youth and then seek to further accelerate their performance through intensive discipline-specific training.<\/p>\n<p>However, this is apparently not the ideal way to promote young talent, as a team led by Arne G\u00fcllich, professor of sports science at RPTU University Kaiserslautern-Landau, has recently discovered.<\/p>\n<p>The work is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/doi\/10.1126\/science.adt7790\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the journal Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traditional research into giftedness and expertise assumes that the key factors to develop outstanding achievements are early performance (e.g., in a school subject, sport, or in concerts) and corresponding abilities (e.g., intelligence, motor skills, musicality) along with many years of intensive training in a discipline. Accordingly, talent programs typically aim to select the top-performing youth [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}