I don't find it a distraction. I had to think, "this is such an old idea, when did this realization struck me?". It was more than a decade ago, on my third res

I don't find it a distraction. I had to think, "this is such an old idea, when did this realization struck me?". It was more than a decade ago, on my third research project, when I went abroad to visit another research institute. Before my experience was only with individuals with extremely high rigor and standards, with who we would discuss of Poincaré, Feyerabend, etc. This was not typical of everyday life in research centers.