--- title: Five Best: There's No Such Thing as a Gifted Child description: There’s no such thing as a gifted child, eating at the wrong time can affect your body weight and more. canonical: https://time.com/5077428/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-gifted-child/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-12-22T17:00:42.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:58:15.532Z article:section: Ideas og:title: There's No Such Thing as a Gifted Child og:description: And four more of today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/5077428/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-gifted-child/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: There's No Such Thing as a Gifted Child twitter:description: And four more of today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # There's No Such Thing as a Gifted Child by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 22, 2017 5:00 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Dec 22, 2017 5:00 PM UTC **1\.** [**There’s no such thing as a gifted child.**](https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/jul/25/no-such-thing-as-a-gifted-child-einstein-iq) By Wendy Berliner in the _Guardian_ **2\.** [**Eating at the wrong time can affect your body weight and more.**](http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/newsroom/articles/year-2017/lifespan-research-takahashi.html) By the _UT Southwestern Medical Center_ **3\.** [**This is why nobody has successfully reinvented email.**](http://mashable.com/2017/07/17/why-no-one-has-re-invented-email/#K2rNdQuXVZqa) By Pete Pachal in _Mashable_ **4\.** [**Yes, birth order really matters — and being born first is best.**](https://www.npr.org/2017/07/04/535470953/research-shows-birth-order-really-does-matter) By Shankar Vedantam at _NPR_ **5\.** [**Exercising is contagious — especially if you’re a man.**](http://mitsloan.mit.edu/newsroom/articles/turns-out-exercise-is-contagious/) By the _MIT Sloan School of Management_  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5077428/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-gifted-child/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5077428/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-gifted-child/"},"headline":"There's No Such Thing as a Gifted Child","datePublished":"2017-12-22T17:00:42.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:58:15.532Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/5077428/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-gifted-child/","keywords":["Five Best Ideas","Children","Innovation","Exercise","Email","intelligence","eating"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/five-best-ideas/","name":"Five Best Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5077428/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-gifted-child/","name":"There's No Such Thing as a Gifted Child"}}]}] ```