1) Susan Polgar achieved incredible heights in chess by becoming the world's first female grandmaster, challenging the notion that men have an advantage due to stronger spatial skills.
2) Her father believed that genius is made, not born, and committed to teaching Susan chess from age five, continually wiring her brain for the game.
3) The case of Susan Polgar shows that the human brain has plasticity and each person has the capacity to alter their neural pathways and skills through experience or training to accomplish things they never thought possible.
1) Susan Polgar achieved incredible heights in chess by becoming the world's first female grandmaster, challenging the notion that men have an advantage due to stronger spatial skills.
2) Her father believed that genius is made, not born, and committed to teaching Susan chess from age five, continually wiring her brain for the game.
3) The case of Susan Polgar shows that the human brain has plasticity and each person has the capacity to alter their neural pathways and skills through experience or training to accomplish things they never thought possible.
1) Susan Polgar achieved incredible heights in chess by becoming the world's first female grandmaster, challenging the notion that men have an advantage due to stronger spatial skills.
2) Her father believed that genius is made, not born, and committed to teaching Susan chess from age five, continually wiring her brain for the game.
3) The case of Susan Polgar shows that the human brain has plasticity and each person has the capacity to alter their neural pathways and skills through experience or training to accomplish things they never thought possible.
My father believed that that the potential of children was not used optimally. This is what Susan Polgar said during an interview when asked how her father influenced her skill in chess. Susan Polgar has achieved incredible heights in the field of chess that few have also reached. She has challenged the notion that mens brain are better at understanding spatial patterns, giving them an advantage in games such as chess, as becoming the worlds first female grandmaster. Her abilities proved her to be called a genius, but her father believed that genius was not born, but made. Her father committed to teaching Susan as early as five years old after she happened to encounter upon a chess set in her home. The case of Susan Polgar has caused me to be amazed of the human brains brilliant capabilities. Although most capabilities of the brain are mysterious and continually revealed, it is very apparent that human brain has plasticity. No, it's not made of plastic. Each one has the capacity for continuous alteration of neural pathways, synapses and the nervous system in response to experience or injury. A healthy human being is not stuck in a situation where he "naturally" cannot do something. Anyone can alter his own brain in order to accomplish something that he thought he could never in his wildest dreams have achieved. This is what Susan has experienced in her early childhood years. Her brain was continually wired for chess. Intelligence can be defined as a general mental ability for reasoning, problem solving, and learning. Because of its general nature, intelligence integrates cognitive functions such as perception, attention, memory, language, or planning. One of the greatest questions of human intelligence is whether it is inherited or acquired. Intelligence appears to be effected strongly by both innate and natural aspects and also from acquired experience and environmental effects. It is mostly inherited, but also has to do with childhood development and environment. A child born with an average or slightly below IQ can acquire intelligence as smarter ones. Anyone can, if they dedicate their time and work hard enough, can achieve what they set out to achieve, it may just come more difficult to them than someone who was born with a higher level of intelligence. This is seen in a lot of college campuses; students can all succeed, some may just need to work a little harder at all. The evident skills and capabilities that I have been trained and acquired can be traced back to my childhood years. I have been known by my family, neighbors, and classmates with an exceptional memory. I have already memorized the counting numbers 1 to 100 at and known to recite long literary pieces such as poetry an early age of five. I have been also quite skilled in mathematics and science in my elementary years due to my inherent curiosity of the world around me. These traits have been developed through the years until I reached college. The dominant factors that led to gain and develop these traits are my inherent personality and the environment I grew in. Being constantly hungry for knowledge is an underlying trait that I have. I always want to learn and practice new things until I have mastered them. Science and math have satisfied this desire to pursue learning in every aspect of my life. My family is very expressive in emotions and feelings. I am a deep person, oftentimes, questioning my purpose and meaning of life and these led me to exercise my skills in writing and poetry. I have always been grateful of how I was molded to the very person I am right now.