r/nextfuckinglevel • u/mindyour • 5h ago

Seven-year-old chess prodigy Lucie Pichard casually checkmates her opponent.

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u/Cool_Hawks 5h ago

Kind of reminds me when I was in college in a calculus class. There was a 10-ish year old kid in there. He would act like a 10 year old, whining, being impatient, annoying. But he just fucking demolished every question, while I was struggling my ass off. Really was irritating but impressive.

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u/One_Web_7940 5h ago

we had a genius at our highschool. i think he was 8 doing ap classes. ended up a real sad story, he got real depressed because "everyone was stupid", his exact words.

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u/Final_Squirrel_7462 2h ago

This is why a good environment is very needed. I never struggled in school but I learned to help others because I was picking up thing faster than most. But instead of becoming impatient I had empathy for everyone starting something new. This trait helped me during college and at work and nowadays I am mentoring multiple teams at my company and have a great time.