Can we just assume that developing the brain in way that makes it better for golf or basketball has any transferable value? Richard Feynman couldn't have been like Lebron James, and vice versa, but can you really argue that perhaps he would have been better off learning more sports rather than reading, thinking, and tinkering with electronics?
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Can we just assume that developing the brain in way that makes it better for golf or basketball has any transferable value? Richard Feynman couldn't have been like Lebron James, and vice versa, but can you really argue that perhaps he would have been better off learning more sports rather than reading, thinking, and tinkering with electronics?
Who's making that argument?
The article seems to be making it implicitly, by calling athletes "geniuses".