>> Science productivity is nonlinear. Maybe you are right, if you try to do it the way the majority does it - brute-forcing and less-efficiently. As a counter

>> Science productivity is nonlinear. Maybe you are right, if you try to do it the way the majority does it - brute-forcing and less-efficiently. As a counter example, a friend of mine was able to graduate a Math PhD from MIT in 2.5 years, and at the same time using every vacation to the max to do mountaineering. One of his tactics is that whenever he does math, he doesn't think about anything else - this way he is not wasting the time.