This third point is, by the way, completely wrong. Not only does he blow a minor thing completely out of proportion by applying it to the whole brain and intelligence, there hardly is any real evidence to back up that you cannot learn new things later in life - on the contrary, check out "Guitar Zero", Gary Marcus does a great job of debunking the "not worth it to try anymore" myth.
This third point is, by the way, completely wrong. Not only does he blow a minor thing completely out of proportion by applying it to the whole brain and intelligence, there hardly is any real evidence to back up that you cannot learn new things later in life - on the contrary, check out "Guitar Zero", Gary Marcus does a great job of debunking the "not worth it to try anymore" myth.