Chill, Most Geniuses Don't Peak Until Their Late 30s Anyway As we discovered on io9, a new study by the National Bureau of Economics Research found that successful scientists and inventors generally peak in their late 30s.
It usually makes parents proud when their children reach a developmental milestone ahead of other kids. But when it comes to intelligence, researchers say, the smartest children appear to have brains that develop later.
Ability to learn new topics quickly. Ability to process new and complex information rapidly. Desire to explore specific topics in great depth. Insatiable curiosity, often demonstrated by many questions.
Delayed puberty is when boys have little to no genital growth by age 14, or girls have no breast development by age 13, or no periods by age 16. You may also hear this called being a “late bloomer”. Delayed puberty may happen in children who have chronic medical conditions.
A late bloomer is a person who fulfills their potential later than expected; they often have talents that aren't visible to others initially. The key word here is expected. And they fulfill their potential frequently in novel and unexpected ways, surprising even those closest to them.
Family History. Most often, it's simply a pattern of growth and development in a family. A guy or girl may find that his or her parent, uncle, aunt, brothers, sisters, or cousins developed later than usual, too. This is called constitutional delay (or being a late bloomer), and it usually doesn't need treatment.
Late bloomers have learned more skills and have more complex social networks than people who peaked earlier in life. This means that once you hit your stride, you have the infrastructure to make it last for a significantly longer period of time than those who found mild to massive success in their younger years.
But some gifted children are late bloomers.
Although hardly a technical or diagnostic term, "late bloomers" characterizes gifted children who master intellectual, developmental or social/emotional milestones at later points in time than is expected.
While 16 is considered the average cut-off point for growth in most males, it's not a guarantee. In particular, if your son is a late bloomer, you may notice growth of up to an inch.
The term “late bloomer” refers to a child who goes through puberty later than their peers. Constitutional growth delay, the medical term for this condition, runs in families. Late bloomers will catch up on their growth and have standard adult height, although it may take a little extra time and patience.
The Six Strengths of Late Bloomers: Curiosity, Compassion, Resilience, Equanimity, Insight, and Wisdom.
Late bloomers learn resilience. Early disappointments force concessions, as Duhigg notes, and they reshape expectations. It is no doubt sad that the best way to gain strength is by falling and continually bouncing back, practicing, working around obstacles. But this flexibility is critical to long-term success.
Born to a German Jewish family in 1879, Einstein was a late bloomer. He learned to speak after most of his peers, and though he earned decent marks in class, he didn't impress his teachers.
The term "late-bloomer" may refer to such an individual who develops serious intellectual interests in their 20s or 30s and enrolls in college, where he or she performs particularly well and subsequently establishes a professional career.
The construct of late bloomers is not only outdated, but can also be toxic to those who do succeed later in life, after the age they're 'supposed' to reach a milestone. Such people may struggle with feelings of failure, negative self-comparison to others, and even the sense that they've been forgotten or left behind.
The data from the studies are clear: Late bloomers are rare; skill deficits are almost always what prevent children from blooming as readers.
Adult testosterone levels vary from 250-800 ng/dL, and most boys with delayed puberty have testosterone levels of less than 40.
Being a genius isn't as simple as being smart or having a high IQ. While intelligence is, of course, a prerequisite of genius status, there are other things at play here – including creativity, self-awareness, and an innate ability to ask questions few others have ever asked.
Notably, the average IQ score falls between 85 and 115. A score above 140, meanwhile, is considered to be genius level.
scientific or technological breakthroughs most typically come in the late 30s. At the same time, a number of scientists make pioneering contributions before reaching 30 or in their 60s and beyond.
Very smart children may seem advanced in many ways, but a new study shows they actually lag behind other kids in development of the "thinking" part of the brain. The brain's outer mantle, or cortex, gets thicker and then thins during childhood and the teen years.
Researchers have found that IQ can rise or fall during the teen years and that the brain's structure reflects this uptick or decline.
Boys tend to show the first physical changes of puberty between the ages of 10 and 16. They tend to grow most quickly between ages 12 and 15. The growth spurt of boys is, on average, about 2 years later than that of girls. By age 16, most boys have stopped growing, but their muscles will continue to develop.