The following is an encore presentation of Everything Everywhere Daily.

This week I'm going to be publishing some of my favorite episodes from 2021,

and I will be back again with brand new episodes on Monday, January 3rd, 2022.

Laslau Polger was born just after World War II in Hungary.

His field of study was the nature of human intelligence. After studying the

lies of over 400 great intellectuals from throughout human history, he came to a

startling conclusion. Geniuses weren't born, they were made.

So he said about conducting an experiment on his own children,

and the results were astonishing.

Learn more about Judith, Susan, and Sophia,

the Incredible Polger Sisters on this episode of Everything Everywhere Daily. The debate between whether nature or nurture is responsible for human development has been around for all of human history.

Even today you can still find people who will adamantly defend one side or the other.

LASLO-Polgird definitely stood on the nurture side of the other. Las Loe Polger definitely stood on the nurture side of the debate.

He was a trained psychologist whose focus of study was human intelligence.

He had done an extensive investigation on hundreds of people who were considered geniuses throughout history

everyone from Socrates to Einstein to Mozart. He wrote a book called

Bringing Up Genius which laid out all of his theories of education, child

development and how to make geniuses.

He explicitly stated, quote, genius equals work in fortunate circumstances.

Geniuses are made, not born. He felt that anyone could become a genius in any field of

sport, science, or the arts if you started your education at the age of three and

began to specialize at the age of six. He wanted to put his

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