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That would be fine, except that everything true is trivial.

On a more serious note on the original comment: there is also something to be said about the label of 'genius'. Take Ramanujan and his unusually strong self-directed efforts at the age of 16, for instance. Often there's more emphasis on the mystical aspect of his narrative.

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