Electronic/World Wide Web>Message Posted to a Newsgroup:  austenallred, (02/11/2014), HN: Curse of the Gifted, Hacker News, Retrieved on 2014-02-11
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    11 FEB 2014

     Curse of the Gifted: Personal Account

    I am miles away from Eric or Linus, but the "curse of the gifted" is very real. Thankfully I wasn't smart or gifted enough that I could ride it for long, but when it comes to math and problem-solving I rode it well into my high school years. I never learned to do algebra "by the book," because I didn't need to. Or maybe because I wasn't smart enough to. The math teacher would teach "3x 6 = 9." Basic algebraic problem-solving says you subtract the 6 from both sides, then divide by 3. So "3...
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    A reply to the article, personal anecdote.

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