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1.As young as possible, expose your children to varied experiences. Look for something that comes naturally to them and that they love doing. Highly talented people often find early in life they are passionate about doing something they love so much they hate to stop. Try and help your kids find something they absolutely love to do. 2.Encourage development of your child's language skills at every opportunity. Language skills are important to knowledge chunking which will come later as they get better. Encourage your child to talk a lot and talk to them a lot. Make sure you talk positively to them all the time. Language competence is highly predictive of future success in almost every field. 3.Learn to love repetition. Let your children read the same book over and over, play the same piece of music on the piano incessantly or practice the same sports skill again and again. It will drive you crazy as a parent but that repetition is a key element of developing talent. Remember, 10,000 hours of hands-on practice are required to reach "expert" status in anything. Repetition builds predictiveness. 4.Give your child as much opportunity for repetition, deliberate practice and then performance as possible. There are no shortcuts. The only way the world's most talented people get to be that way is by focusing on intense practice over a long period of time. There is no other way to do it. 1．尽可能在幼年时，就让孩子接触各种不同的经验，看看其中有什么是他们自然而然就喜欢做的事。那些最优秀的人才，常常是在很年轻的时候就找到自己爱不释手的事物。尽力帮你的孩子找到他们完全热中的事物。 2．尽可能把握所有机会，鼓励孩子发展语言能力。他们要到较大的时候，才会开始对知识加以分门别类，而语言技巧则是重要的基础。鼓励孩子多讲话，也多跟他们讲话。讲话的时候，要记得维持正面的态度。几乎在任何的领域，语言能力都和未来的成功高度相关。 3．学习喜爱重复。让孩子一次又一次读同一本书、在钢琴上一次又一次弹着同一条曲子，或是一次又一次练习同样的运动技巧。身为父母，可能会觉得这实在很烦，但重复正是培养人才的关键因素。请记住，无论什么事，都要有1万个小时的实作，才能达到“专家”的水准。重复，才能培养预测能力。 4．给孩子机会，尽量让他们重复、刻意练习和表现。这件事情没有捷径。就算那些世界上最优秀的人，能到达今天的成就，唯一的方式就是长时间密集地练习，而且别无他法。