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Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio. Good morning. This is

Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast Podcast. Today's tip is that it is

okay to be a late bloomer. Sometimes taking time to try lots of different

things can teach you what you really like so that you'll want to spend lots of

time on whatever you do wind up pursuing because you like it for its own

sake. Today's tip comes from Before Breakfast producer Lowell

Berlonte who hosts a new podcast called Prodigy which is all about skill

acquisition. There are different theories on how people become really good at

anything. Lowell tells me. One example is Lazlo Polgar, a Hungarian educational

psychologist who believed that talent was irrelevant for mastery. Instead he

decided the determining factor was early specialized education and he set out

to prove this with his own children. Lazlo and his wife had three daughters

Susan, Sophia and Judith. Collectively known as the Polgar sisters they ended

up smashing the long standing gender barrier that existed in competitive chess.

Susan was the first woman to become a grandmaster and was ranked in the top three

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