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There's been a little interesting work that suggests that there are different archetypes among the extremely creative that roughly correspond to 'early peakers'

• kghose 15y ago
  Perhaps 'early' and 'late' are not as important as the fact that there is a peak - people don't seem to be famous/productive in a sustained way. The 'early' and 'late' is probably continuous, you can peak anytime, but you tend not to hold it.
  • eric-hu 15y ago
    Leonhard Euler: Born: 1707 completes masters in philosophy: 1723 lost vision in right eye: 1735 Solved 7 bridges problem: 1736 publish Introductio in analysin infinitorum, volume 1: 1748 [2] Euler-Bernoulli Beam Theory: 1750 Euler's Formula (geometry): 1750 [1] publish Institutiones calculi differentialis: 1755 [2] near total blindness: 1766 publish Theoria motuum lunae: 1768 [1] http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/euler/ http://www.ics.uci.edu/~eppstein/junkyard/euler/ [2] http://eulerarchive.maa.org/historica/euler-timeline.html http://eulerarchive.maa.org/historica/euler-timeline.html There's plenty more that's left out. After his near-total blindness, he averaged publishing one mathematical paper per week in 1775. To assume you or I are like Euler is hubris. To assume otherwise is doing a disservice to humanity.