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A 45-year-long study discovered trends in successful hyper-intelligent children

A team of scientists at Vanderbilt found after a 45-year-long study, that drive and persistence can only take you so far to be successful.

  • Some of the most influential leaders of our age had what it takes at birth: super intelligence.
  • The study showed kids who scored in the top 3% on the SAT by age 13 had two main abilities in common: they could solve math problems they'd never been taught and they had exceptional spatial awareness.
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An ongoing study suggests that drive and persistence can only take you so far. That's what a team of scientists at Vanderbilt found after a 45-year-long study .

In fact, some of the most influential leaders of our age had what it takes at birth: super intelligence. That means scoring in the top 3% on the SAT by age 13.

Kids who achieved this impressive feat had two main abilities in common: they could solve math problems they'd never been taught and they had exceptional spatial awareness meaning they could remember spatial relationships between objects exceptionally well.

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"When you look at the issues facing society now whether it's health care, climate change, terrorism, energy these are the kids who have the most potential to solve these problems." said , David Lubinski, co-director of SMPY, Vanderbilt University.

EDITOR'S NOTE: This video was originally published on June 14, 2017.

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