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Aspen Ideas Festival: How children succeed: grit, curiosity and the hidden power of character

Brain scientists say in the first five years of life there is an explosion in your brain that stays with you all your life. The co-directors of the Institute for Learning and Brain Sciences at the University of Washington told a 2013 Aspen Ideas Festival audience we're in the midst of a revolution in our understanding of development of the early brain.

The 'Big Bang' in a childhood brain

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