The child prodigy who beats you at chess when you’re a kid is going to fade away in adulthood 90% of the time, study says

You may have a leg up on the child prodigies who made you feel inadequate as a school kid.

Despite outliers like Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a new analysis based on 19 studies involving 34,000 high achievers across multiple disciplines — including Nobel laureates, top chess players, Olympic champions, and elite musicians — found that individuals who achieved peak performance early in life were not always the same people to reach high success in adulthood. 

“Across the highest adult performance levels...