This Forum will explore some of these questions, drawing on the knowledge, experience and opinions of participants. Do these gifted underachievers exemplify what neurologist Norman Geschwind called a pathology of superiority? These are the people whose brains are wired for lateral thinking, for the big picture, for visual imagination and for abstract thought but also, and sadly, for dyslexia-type difficulties: the Einstein Factor. Einsteins teachers never saw his wonderment and persistence. They never saw his visual/spatial brilliance. They saw only his ineptitude - and Einstein came perilously close to academic extinction. He was not the only one. These are children of huge potential; we do not want to lose them. When we understand the problem, we shall be more than half way to the solution.
Richard Branson and others of his ilk will be too busy to attend, but we can still learn from them.