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Social skills. Nobody can achieve anything worthwhile completely on their own [0]. Successfully cooperating, motivating and especially inspiring people allows t
by _Microft 6y ago
Social skills. Nobody can achieve anything worthwhile completely on their own [0]. Successfully cooperating, motivating and especially inspiring people allows to achieve lots more than working on one's own, no matter how skilled one might be.
[0] Of course there are exceptions to this rule, especially in e.g. mathematics. I bet Terrence Tao can eat almost everybody's lunch in math.
- maxov 6y agoI think your point applies, especially to math. These days research math is a very collaborative and social endeavor. Terry Tao would probably disagree very strongly with you: https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-to-be-a-genius-to-do-maths/ https://terrytao.wordpress.com/career-advice/does-one-have-t... “The popular image of the lone genius ... is a charming and romantic image, but also a wildly inaccurate one, at least in the world of modern mathematics.”
- _Microft 6y agoHa, thanks for letting me know :)