The existence of genius prodigies is always amazing, in addition to making people envious of their parents, but also hope that they can have the same talent, so as to win at the starting point; However, in the real world, there is no shortage of examples of "small, big is not necessarily better", some are not the ability or IQ degradation, but can not get used to the aura of gifted children, the body and mind are limited to a narrow world, the ending is stifling, such as Xie Yanbo, who entered the junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China in 1978.
In 1978, the mainland media was full of reports about Ning Bo and Xie Yanbo, two prodigies, and in the eyes of others, several of them were absolutely national stars, gathering the attention of the whole of China. Xie Yanbo, who was only 11 years old at the time, won many good results in mathematics and physical and chemical competitions, and his strength far exceeded the junior high school and high school level, and later after a special test, it was confirmed that the 11-year-old's knowledge level had reached the university level, so Xie Yanbo entered the genius junior class of the University of Science and Technology of China with 20 others as a primary school student and became a nationally recognized prodigy.
In 1982, only 15 years old, Xie Yanbo graduated from university early, followed by a master's degree at the Institute of Theoretical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and began to study for a doctorate at the age of 18, and was optimistic that he had a great chance to obtain a doctorate around the age of 20.
However, just when everyone thought that this prodigy would definitely achieve extraordinary, Xie Yanbo's life trajectory began to go wrong, because he could not handle the relationship with zhou Guangzhao, the doctoral supervisor and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, which led to his inability to get a doctoral diploma, so he had to transfer to the United States to continue his doctoral studies.
Unfortunately, even if he left his hometown and changed completely different people and things, the same thing was repeatedly staged, Xie Yanbo studied with the well-known Nobel Prize winner in physics- Philip Anderson in princeton University, one of the Ivy League schools, but he chose the opposite school of the tutor in the research direction of the graduation thesis, and the content of the thesis was mostly criticism and correction of the supervisor's research views, which made everyone around him very stunned.
Even though the thesis was returned many times, Xie Yanbo still refused to revise it, did not want to admit his mistakes, and always insisted on his arguments, and soon after Xie Yanbo was told that due to school problems, the school refused to agree to his "graduation" from Anderson's disciple with the thesis.
However, the stubborn Xie Yanbo refused to accept this fact, the two sides were deadlocked for 9 years, Xie Yanbo still did not get a doctorate, and the relationship with Professor Anderson continued to deteriorate, until the sensational Peking University student Lu Gang, after the killing of the American professor (in 2007, it was also adapted into the movie "Salt Lake City Campus Incident"), the school was worried that the stubborn and eccentric Xie Yanbo also had such a potential danger, plus a vice president of the University of Science and Technology of China also decided to let Xie Yanbo return to China. Xie Yanbo's study abroad career also ended.
This setback, for Xie Yanbo, who has always been smooth sailing, is simply more serious than the sky falling.
Going around in a big circle, Xie Yanbo still returned to the starting point of his original myth, that is, the University of Science and Technology of China, as an ordinary teacher.
After Xie Yanbo returned to China, he also got married and had children like normal people, and his hobbies in life, in addition to doing topics, were playing Go. However, during the class, Xie Yanbo was considered by his classmates and colleagues to have "mental problems after setbacks" and was suspected of suffering from mental illness. In the classroom, although Xie Yanbo's logic is very good and his voice is very loud, he will always make some strange behaviors, such as he often suddenly laughs inexplicably on the podium during lectures, and every time he turns around and turns back after wiping the blackboard, he will show this strange smile.
After class, Xie Yanbo also hardly interacts with colleagues, he likes to put on a dirty old-fashioned jacket that can't see the original color, and holds a bulging red environmental bag in his arms. The outfit is very similar to the scavengers on the street.
In this way, Xie Yanbo, a prodigy who originally had the opportunity to win the Nobel Prize, changed from a genius who attracted much attention to a lone traveler who was regarded as a "strange" person.
Regarding Xie Yanbo's lamentable ending, some people have summarized several factors:
First, Xie Yanbo himself suffers from Asperger's syndrome, so he lacks the ability to communicate with others;
Second, because he became famous and entered the academic circle too early, he who was not good at communication had fewer opportunities to communicate with ordinary people;
Third, the high attention of the outside world has also caused great pressure on these so-called gifted children, and led them to refuse to accept failure, and once they fail, they will never recover; Finally, Xie Yanbo directly entered the university after graduating from primary school, completely skipping secondary education, and the comprehensive quality training was insufficient, which in turn affected their personality and self-care ability in life.
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