父母助力儿女成才

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原本日后会成为有才的人，结果在小时候没有被父母好好栽培，最终成为普通人。
Hints：
e-l-e-c-t-r-i-c-i-t-y
Mr Teddy
Tiger Woods
Mozart
Mr Zukerberg
Mark
主持：jushua
校对&翻译：早安Miki
答疑：lsy34When I started school around the age of four, I was the youngest in my class by about a month. That huge age difference combined with my ability at the time to spell a word as difficult as "electricity", e-l-e-c-t-r-i-c-i-t-y, before anyone else, convinced me that I was a prodigy. My classmates envied me. My teacher praised me. It felt good. Even before I knew the implications of the word "prodigy", I looked forward to a life of rich rewards, a certain amount of isolation from my peers, but grudging admiration from all.
But somewhere along the line, the opportunity was squandered. I got distracted. Maybe I spent far too much time playing with Mr Teddy, wanting sweets, or arguing with my mother over whether I needed to wear a coat outside or not. I didn't, by the way, everyone else was just wearing a T-shirt. Whatever I was doing, I wasn't focusing enough on the important things. I blamed my parents. They lacked ambition for me. Why did my father not practise golf with me from the age of three when all that important muscle memory should be learned? That's what Tiger Woods's father did. Obviously it was much later in life that Tiger learned how to be prodigious at other things, but that early will to succeed at golf, that early drive came from, well, those early drives.
My brain was never given the chance either. Mozart's father was a devoted music teacher to his son from the age of five. Mr Zukerberg paid for Mark to take private lessons in computer programming. My father would bring me for bicycle rides when I could have been inventing the Internet. It's practically neglect. I should have been trained by my parents from an early age. Yes I'm sure I would have resented them, but you can always have a second childhood later on when you're rich with all the sweets and Teddies you want. Whatever the reasons for my lack of world domination, now I fear it may be too late for me. You can't be precocious in your early 30s, unless you're very precocious at being elderly. At this stage, I can only be vicarious. That's why I've decided the only way to achieve true greatness is through someone else, to be precise, the next generation.我上学时才四岁，比班上其他同学都小一个月。悬殊的年龄差距，加上拼起"electricity"这样复杂的单词来，我总是先人一步，让我坚信自己天生奇才。同学羡我，老师夸我，那感觉太好了。早在知道“天才”这个词的寓意之前，我就展望着自己硕果累累的一生了，在我想象中，同龄人难免会有些孤立我，但所有人都会对我又妒又羡。
但不知从什么时候起，这大好的机会白白浪费了。我的注意力放到别的事情上去了。也许是我太多时间都在和泰迪熊玩耍，一心盼着糖果，和妈妈争论有没有必要穿件外套出去。不过我不肯听她的话，因为别人都只穿着件T恤。不管做了些什么，我都没费心去做正经事。我怪父母对我没有高的期望，爸爸为什么不从我三岁起，就带我打高尔夫呢？这个年龄正是培养肌肉记忆的黄金时间啊， 泰格·伍兹的爸爸就是这样做的。显然有些事情伍兹很晚才明白过来，但他很小就下定决心要在高尔夫上获得成功，这股早早养成的冲劲正来自于早年的鞭策。
我的大脑也错过了训练机会。莫扎特的父亲还在儿子五岁时，就孜孜不倦地教他音乐了。扎克伯格的爸爸付钱让马克去上私人教授的电脑编程课。而在我本来可以发明因特网的时候，我爸爸却带我去骑车。这简直就是埋没我的才华。我爸妈本应在我小时候就训练我。没错，那样的话我会恨他们，但可以在以后有钱时再买自己喜爱的泰迪熊和糖果来补偿童年嘛。不管是什么造成我没能出人头地，现在说什么都怕是太晚了。三十出头的年纪，再也没有早熟的机会了，除非是相对于变老而言。当下我只能指望别人。因此我下定决心要通过别人干一番真正的大事，准确地说，是通过下一代。