It really messes with people to draw them out as some exception; some prodigy as a child. It doesn't do well to nuture a quiet self sourced pride in craftsmanship;

there are many tales of gifted children elevated to a pedastal who by 25 or 30 already feel like their life is over, who burn out and stop doing whatever it was they were so regarded for.

The best thing for someone like this would be to find them a tutor who is much better than them, so they keep the humility and curiosity required to keep growing. And never to let the people around them big them up too much. I say this as someone that in some ways went through same