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“climb a few fences, be<strong>com</strong>e desensitized,and climb up on the ro<strong>of</strong>,” the latepsychologist David Lykken once expla<strong>in</strong>ed<strong>in</strong> an Atlantic article. “<strong>The</strong>y’llhave all sorts <strong>of</strong> experiences that otherkids won’t. Chuck Yeager (the first pilotto break the sound barrier) could stepdown from the belly <strong>of</strong> the bomber <strong>in</strong>tothe rocketship and push the button notbecause he was born with that differencebetween him and me, but becausefor the previous thirty years his temperamentimpelled him to work his wayup from climb<strong>in</strong>g trees through <strong>in</strong>creas<strong>in</strong>gdegrees <strong>of</strong> danger and excitement.”Conversely, high-reactive childrenmay be more likely to develop <strong>in</strong>toartists and writers and scientists andth<strong>in</strong>kers because their aversion to noveltycauses them to spend time <strong>in</strong>sidethe familiar—and <strong>in</strong>tellectually fertile—environment<strong>of</strong> their own heads.320/929

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