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No one would choose this sort of
painful adolescence, but the fact is that
the solitude of Woz’s teens, and the
single-minded focus on what would
turn out to be a lifelong passion, is typical
for highly creative people. According
to the psychologist Mihaly
Csikszentmihalyi, who between 1990
and 1995 studied the lives of ninetyone
exceptionally creative people in the
arts, sciences, business, and government,
many of his subjects were on the
social margins during adolescence,
partly because “intense curiosity or focused
interest seems odd to their
peers.” Teens who are too gregarious to
spend time alone often fail to cultivate
their talents “because practicing music
or studying math requires a solitude
they dread.” Madeleine L’Engle, the author
of the classic young adult novel A
Wrinkle in Time and more than sixty
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