10 at 10: The Surprising Childhoods of Ten Remarkable People

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INTRODUCTION It's not easy being ten There are things to learn rules to follow teachers to impress friends to make bullies to avoid and your body is about to get weird on you Ten is an important year because you have survived what psychologists call the formative years That's just a fancy way of saying your personality has started to take shape But you are not done Think of yourself as a lump of clay In the next ten years your personality will squish and squash in ways that may surprise you and everyone around you It will get molded and formed before it hardens into something magnificent Take for example Albert Einstein At the age of ten did Einstein know he would someday come up with the theory of relativity Hardly At ten he was your typical smart kid with a lot of questions rolling around his head and an attitude that annoyed most of his teachers How about Louis Armstrong If you could peer into a magic looking glass and see his life at ten you would likely not have predicted that he would become a world class jazz musician Then 6