To give you something to compare yourself against consider Pu Yi who by that tender age had been the emperor of China for seven years.

And by the time he reached the end of his first decade Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart had been composing original works for four years and had been taken to many European capitals showing off his precocious musical talent.

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