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Born Genius

Marc Yu is a seven-year-old concert pianist with a repertoire of some 40 classical pieces. At the age of two, Marc heard a rendition of ‘Mary Had a Little Lamb’ at a birthday party, pulled himself up to a piano and played it back flawlessly. A year later, he was playing Beethoven from memory. But are his remarkable abilities based on hard work or was he simply born with a brilliant brain? Developmental psychologist Professor Ellen Winner explains that people have always been fascinated with child geniuses because they are doing things at “the wrong age”. “They’re not supposed to be doing things so advanced,” she explains, “so they shock us.”

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  • Originally Aired July 23, 2007
  • Runtime 45 minutes
  • Network National Geographic
  • Notes Is the series finale
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Name Type Role
Gottfried Schlaug; Ellen Winner Writer
Marc Yu Guest Star
Robert Hartel Director