Dalio said listening to Leib and Stott launched his career – not because they taught him any particular lessons about the stock market, but because the success of his initial investment got him"hooked," prompting him to start learning more at a very young age.
"You think differently pre-puberty than you think after puberty," Dalio said."You learn differently. And [the] experiences… can have a very big effect. You can learn in a way that you can't learn later." Kids do appear to learn faster, or at least differently, than adults – though scientists have yet to confirm exactly why.
conducted by MIT scientists found that"a great deal of evidence suggests" children – especially below the age of 10 – have an easier time becoming fluent in a language and mastering grammar rules, but"underlying causes remain unknown."