“Similarly—and more in line with the sorts of factors that may play a role in acquiring skills with practice—nine-month-old infants who paid more attention to a parent as that parent was reading a book and pointing to the pictures in the book grew up to have a much better vocabulary at five years of age than infants who paid less attention.”
― Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
― Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
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