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Congratulations to him! That's an amazing accomplishment. There's a lesson in this line > For more than a year and a half, Larsen couldn’t stop thinking about
by dgs_sgd 4y ago
Congratulations to him! That's an amazing accomplishment. There's a lesson in this line
> For more than a year and a half, Larsen couldn’t stop thinking about a certain math problem.
It's rare to be able to focus on something for that long without giving up.
- skyhvr 4y agoTo your point, one of the more fascinating details about John Nash from Nassar’s book ‘A Beautiful Mind’ was that this very trait set him apart from a number of his contemporaries. He was capable of focusing on problems for what appeared to be quite a bit longer than most, systematically breaking down the barriers that would’ve turned another person toward some other pursuit.