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What the article hints at is the reason for this shift: You need to accumulate more knowledge and do more work before the breakthrough. Meaning you have to sta
by sireat 15y ago
What the article hints at is the reason for this shift:
You need to accumulate more knowledge and do more work before the breakthrough. Meaning you have to start very early on your highly specialized journey.
Are there any recent (past 50 years or so) examples of someone doing great work in some field, but who started late (say age 25 or 30)?
- zerostar07 15y agoHodgkin and Huxleys seminal work in neuroscience was done in their late 30s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodgkin%E2%80%93Huxley_model http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodgkin%E2%80%93Huxley_model Feynman formulated the path integral at age 30