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It is not just standing on shoulders of giants. It is also that we only hear about the success stories and hardly ever of the long road that lead to the insight
by spockz 6y ago
It is not just standing on shoulders of giants. It is also that we only hear about the success stories and hardly ever of the long road that lead to the insights and theories. We do this in our era as well which makes it easy to someone as brilliant and think of yourself as not brilliant because you experience your own failures and struggles but only see the successes of others.
- JumpCrisscross 6y ago> It is also that we only hear about the success stories and hardly ever of the long road that lead to the insights and theories I have never truly understood a theory until I learned its broken precursors. One gets a taste of this in physics. Newton to special relativity. (I never got my head around GR.) Or earlier: the different models of atoms, from plum pudding to electron clouds. It’s a good tool poorly used outside a few examples.
- easton_s 6y agoWatching the Cosmos series those giants in their times were like Atlases carrying their work and the social sigma of trying to break dogma. Many of them suffered greatly for us to enjoy the elevated view.