It seems like precocity and genius are one in one. We all assume geniuses are all former child prodigies that go on to make an extraordinary achievement. That isn’t the case, I see a very solid trend of peaks of genius happening from the early twenties to the late twenties. I’ll throw out some names, like Mozart, Orson Welles, Michael Jackson, Kanye West, Picassco and so many others. It’s take about always 10,000 hours, roughly 10 years for 2-3 hours a day to master a speciality. If you ask anyone successful, how long it took them to get comfortable with their profession, you will hear 10 years. That mastery in mind, it blooms into the peak of their abilities. Michael Jackson released Thriller when he was twenty-four. Mozart wrote this Piano Concerto No. 9 in E flat major at twenty-one. Orson Welles made Citizen Kane at twenty-five. A painting done by Picassco was worth five times as much when he was in his mid-twenties. Kanye West released his groundbreaking, debut album College Dropout at twenty-eight. Louis Braille published his first book in Braille when he was twenty. Bobby Fischer became World Champion at twenty-nine. The level of discipline and dedication helped these individuals reach their highest potential when they were in their twenties. The twenties I think about that’s when you start to grasp fully your potential and where your talents lie. These individuals were extremely gifted, but the drive and getting 10,000 hours worth of practice helped them to achieve what they needed to. You can trace back any successful individual, and their major breakthroughs. You will see two trends it took them ten years or more to achieve a goal, and that they were in their twenties. This isn’t a debate if they were geniuses or not, this is an argument about the time frame that it took for them to achieve what they did.
The 20s = The Peak of Genius?
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