“LOS ANGELES — The one thing 14-year-old Moshe Kai Cavalin dislikes is being called a genius.
All he did, after all, was enroll in college at age 8 and earn his first of two Associate of Arts degrees from East Los Angeles Community College at age 9, graduating with a perfect 4.0 grade point average.
Now, at 14, he’s poised to graduate from UCLA this year. He’s also just published an English edition of his first book, “We Can Do.”
The 100-page guideline explains how other young people can accomplish what Cavalin did through such simple acts as keeping themselves focused and approaching everything with total commitment. He’s hoping it will show people there’s no genius involved, just hard work.”
A few quick thoughts while I’m squeezing on the train back from work:
1. Impressive. Sounds like Sheldon.
2. Asian. No surprise..
3. Wait, you’re called Moshe even though you’re chinese? WAIT.
4. The kid is a half jew, half chinese. Le most powerful legendary breed. The secret lies in genetics. The book wouldn’t be able to fully share any technique to reach such genius. You can mug as hard as an Intact student, and still be an idiot – if that’s what your natural capacity is. No amount of fertiliser can make shitty seeds grow.
5. Perhaps we take for granted that the capacity for hard work and focus sometimes requires natural talent, and varies from person to person.
6. This kid just made a lot of asian parents around the world, and their poor overworked kid more stressed. Not sure if this news made Straits Times. Haven’t been reading local news.
7. Shall forward to my parents anyway. Good luck, bro 
8. Such books must sell quite well in asian markets. And I’m guessing probably doesn’t bring about much sustained improvement.
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