Yesterday's Today. Page 28

"Focus on the family by Dr. James Dobson - Compensating for handicaps - In their now classic study called 'Cradles of eminence", Victor and Mildred Goertzel investigated the home backgrounds of 400 highly successful people... to identify the early experiences that may have contributed to greatness... subjects are well known .. Einstein, Freud, Winston Churchill.... three-fourths of them came from troubled childhoods; enduring poverty, broken homes, or parental abuse. One-fourth had physical handicaps and most of the writers and playwrights had watched their parents get embroiled in psychological dramas....concluded that the need to compensate for disadvantages was a major factor in the struggle for personal achievement...."