[Marie]

I find the “10,000 hours of practice” note to be fascinating.

Intelligence has a lot to do with where one end’s up, but not everything. I think passion and interest has a lot to do with it as well. Without that, you don’t put 10,000 hours into anything.

I really do wonder where my son will end up. He’s a bright, gifted speaker with a remarkable memory.

But he spends all of his free time working at his home-made forge. ~:-\

[ansel12]

“I really do wonder where my son will end up. He’s a bright, gifted speaker with a remarkable memory.

But he spends all of his free time working at his home-made forge. ~:-\”

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Wow, What do those symbols mean?

[Erasmus]

Well, there’s good money to be made in forgery.

[Toki]

I've meet amazing artists that work with creating furniture using metalworking (that's what you meant by forge right?) And if you son is smart enough to create that, my friend A. who just graduated as a Mechanical engineer would tell you is that you probably might just have a future engineer on your hands. :D

Then again, My massive amounts of reading just plain junk (fanfiction if you know what that is) when I was in high school paid off, because I can zoom through news articles, books, etc. You never know when the things that look like they'll never pay off do.