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🏆Today we are madly obsessed with early achievement. We celebrate those who explode out of the gates, who scorch the SAT, get straight A’s in AP courses, win a spot at Harvard or Stanford, get a first job at Google or Goldman Sachs, and headline those ubiquitous 30-under-30 lists.
如今我們瘋狂追捧着年少成名的故事。我們推崇那些從起跑線開始就一路領先的天才，他們高分搞定SAT，用無數的A串起成績單，獲得哈佛或者斯坦福的錄取名額，畢業之後第一份工作就入職google或者高盛，並且登上那些漫天飛舞的“30位30歲以下的俊傑”榜單。
👀But precocious achievement is the exception, not the norm. The fact is, we mature and develop at different rates. All of us will have multiple cognitive peaks throughout our lives, and the talents and passions that we have to offer can emerge across a range of personal circumstances, not just in formal educational settings focused on a few narrow criteria of achievement. Late bloomers are everywhere once you know to look for them.
然而年少成名的案例注定是個例，而非常態。每個人發展成熟的速度是不一樣的，我們人生中都會有數個認知水平的巔峰期，並且我們的才能和熱情也會在各種各樣的個人境遇中得到激發和釋放。正式的教育流程着眼於用很少的幾項評判標準來選拔優秀人才，因此並不是所有人都得在那個體系裡一展宏圖。如果你仔細找找的話，你的身邊一定有許多大器晚成的人。
🗣Recent research suggests that we need to modify our understanding of how people mature from adolescence to adulthood. Between the ages of 18 and 25, most people are still living in a volatile post-adolescence. In both adolescent and young adult brains, the prefrontal cortex—the processing center of our frontal lobe—is the last part to fully develop, and it is responsible for complex functions such as planning and organizing, problem solving, memory, attention and inhibition.
我們此前用於定義青少年長大成人的標準，也許需要修正一下。最近的研究表明，大多數18-25歲之間的人群仍然處於情緒波動較大的“後青春期“，青少年和年輕人的大腦中，額葉的資訊處理中心——前額葉皮質是最晚發展完全的部分，而前額葉皮質所負責的是人的計劃及組織能力、問題解決能力、記憶力、注意力和自控能力。
💡 💡💡 今日讀報記起來 💡💡💡
-out of the gates: 一開始；打從最一開始
-scorch: 燒、烤焦；文中引申為在考試中以優越能力拿高分的意思
-ubiquitous: 無所不在
-precocious: 早熟；過早的
-personal circumstances: 個人際遇
-late bloomer: 大器晚成的人
-modify: 改變；修正
-volatile: 起伏大的；動盪的
-inhibition: 抑制；克制
未完待續...
各年齡階段的大腦會發展什麼能力呢？
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We live in a society where people are obsessed with _____________ achievement. But such obsession should be ____________ in that studies have shown that throughout our lives, we will have multiple cognitive peaks, only that people mature and develop at different rates.
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A. precocious / modify
B. precautious / modified
C. precocious / modified
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