How to Spot Raw Talent
Robert Lanza, world famous biologist and scientist lives on an island in a small Massachusetts lake, keeping a complete and authentic museum of fossils and dinosaur bones and surrounded by the nature he cherishes. He developed a love for the mysteries of nature because of the time he spent roaming the wilderness during his youth because he is not allowed to enter his house only to eat dinner and sleep. It was a time where he was deprived of the natural phase of youth but also a time to discover and think deeply of the mysteries of life all around him. In a 2001 article in US News and World report, Robert Lanza was called the “living embodiment” of the fictional genius in the movie Good Will Hunting, whose Massachusetts accent is as thick as Lanza’s own.
Dr Robert Lanza was initially labeled “slow” at school. In 1969, when he was just 14 years old, he altered the genetics of a chicken in his basement. That feat is astounding due to the fact that it was only a mere three years after scientists cracked the genetic code that he was able to do it. At such a young age, when teenagers roamed the streets and have no care in the world, Robert Lanza was into such serious study and actual experimentation in the difficult subject of genetics.
It was the raw scientific talent of Robert Lanza that caught the attention of the scientific academe and brought him in close association and work with such notable scientists as Jonas Salk and B.F. Skinner.