Genius and Success do not equal

Read The Sunday Times on 6th of April and you'll come across a page dedicated to Ms SufiahYusof, the prodigy who entered Oxford at the tender age of 13. Don't gasp in surprise yet. Read on and you'll realize that later on she became a prostitute.



If I only tell you this much, you'll be going along the lines of What a pity..what a waste of talent.. And yes, I'd agree. But she's no good girl gone bad. She'd been subjected to extreme study conditions by her father's "special teaching techniques", e.g. doing stretching exercises in freezing temperatures every morning, banned from media and kept from friends. For those who are still resting on your laurels, this is the real case of "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy".



Obviously the techniques worked -- she entered Oxford, after all. Goes to show that if we worked hard enough we could always be geniuses.



But the poor girl was ostracized (you can't not expect it) and she ended up where she is today. (I'm not going into the studies done by scientists on human behaviour, read up on that yourself.)

Another potential down the drain.