What If You Learned 10x Faster Than Everyone Else?

What if you learned 10 times faster than everyone else? A year of school in a month. Any game in a minute. A song on the piano after hearing it once. Everything is easy... except the one puzzle you never learned to solve: people. You're seventy, you just jumped off your own skyscraper after a falling boy, and your arm is two meters too short. To see how you catch him, we go back to the start: a vegetable crate for a crib, three coins in a coffee can, and a brain that figures everything out ten times faster... until one frozen morning makes you choose between the bus out of poverty and your only friend. Chapters: 0:00 Falling off your own skyscraper 0:41 Born 10x faster, into the poorest family 1:14 The baby everyone thought was stupid 2:28 Too good to play with 3:21 Fifty books in a month 3:45 A brain that's always hungry 4:23 School is too easy 5:41 The repair shop 6:19 The one thing you can't figure out 7:19 The bus or your friend 8:25 Everything is easy. Except people. Can you catch the boy? Everything you need is on screen at 0:29. Post your answer before you watch the ending. And how many of the nine "Check yourself" moments fit YOU? Tell us in the comments. This is Part 1 of a 3-part story. Subscribe so you don't miss Part 2. Science notes: babies understand common words at around 6–9 months, long before they can say them, and a first word usually comes around 12 months. The brain is about 2% of body weight but uses about 20% of the body's energy at rest. Absolute (perfect) pitch is rare, roughly 1 in 10,000 people, and is linked to early musical exposure. Studies of highly gifted children, going back to Leta Hollingworth, find that the further a child is ahead of their age group, the harder it is to make friends, and many end up with older friends. Ice rescue: in icy water, the 1-10-1 rule gives about 1 minute of cold shock, about 10 minutes of useful arm movement, and about 1 hour before hypothermia knocks you out. Rescuers lie flat to spread their weight, pull along the ice instead of up, go back the way the person came, and roll away instead of standing. #whatif #animation #story