I decided at the age of 7 that I was going to be a scientist, and that hasn't changed, 19 years later.
Not so much a response to your comment but I am going to take this opportunity to rant! I get a little annoyed when people present Akira as being somehow extremely abnormal for having chosen his professional path when he was just a child. Sometimes you just happen to find your passion early! There's nothing wrong with that. And I also don't buy the fanon that he had no choice to learn go because of his father. I don't think Touya Kouyou is the type of person to do that, first of all, and it's not like the Morishita children were all forced to become go pros (though I'm sure their father wished they had).
FTR, my father tried to teach me go when I was 8 (because knowing how to play is kind of part and parcel of being a well-educated person in Korea) and totally did not succeed because I didn't have any talent for the game. So I rather think that while Akira got an early exposure to go thanks to being the Meijin's son, he was the one who chose to pursue it further because he had both the talent and the interest to do so.
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I decided at the age of 7 that I was going to be a scientist, and that hasn't changed, 19 years later.
Not so much a response to your comment but I am going to take this opportunity to rant! I get a little annoyed when people present Akira as being somehow extremely abnormal for having chosen his professional path when he was just a child. Sometimes you just happen to find your passion early! There's nothing wrong with that. And I also don't buy the fanon that he had no choice to learn go because of his father. I don't think Touya Kouyou is the type of person to do that, first of all, and it's not like the Morishita children were all forced to become go pros (though I'm sure their father wished they had).
FTR, my father tried to teach me go when I was 8 (because knowing how to play is kind of part and parcel of being a well-educated person in Korea) and totally did not succeed because I didn't have any talent for the game. So I rather think that while Akira got an early exposure to go thanks to being the Meijin's son, he was the one who chose to pursue it further because he had both the talent and the interest to do so.