How Childhood Experiences Can Reveal Natural Abilities
Childhood can contain useful clues about recurring patterns of ability. Consider activities a child repeatedly initiated rather than activities adults merely assigned.
What to look for in childhood behavior
Did the child build and take things apart? Organize games? Tell elaborate stories? Teach younger children? Draw constantly? Investigate how things worked? Negotiate group decisions? Notice small details? Care for others? Create systems for collecting or arranging things?
Not diagnostic proof
These behaviors are not proof of a particular talent. Children also experiment, imitate, and change rapidly. Their value is as historical evidence of recurring tendencies.
Compare past to present
For adults exploring themselves, childhood memories can be compared with present-day behavior. When the same pattern appears across decades and environments, it becomes more interesting.
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