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It's not a sad story. It's a lesson to others. It's interesting how the story switches between reasons. To me, the most salient is: "could not overcome Heise

It's not a sad story. It's a lesson to others. It's interesting how the story switches between reasons. To me, the most salient is: "could not overcome Heisenberg's complete lack of interest and gave up the effort". Attention to detail has been one of my largest issues in mistakes I've made, and this reminds me that sometimes that's what is required. And sometimes what's required is putting a draft on arxiv.org and waiting for the criticism or roast. Growing up in a house where your parent is worried about your performance in a subfield and reaches out to experts in the field. That's the complicated double-edged sword.

galaxyLogic 4y ago
"could not overcome Heisenberg's complete lack of interest and gave up the effort" We all want to excel so naturally we pick topics which seem easy to us and thus can expect to excel further in them. If we did not do well in some topic earlier, we are not very interested in it, because the best we can hope is to do ok in that subject. I did not like "technical drawing" in my first year and so I found a way to pass without taking that course. Now I lament I didn't take it. But I wanted to excel, not be mediocre in something. I wish this psychological observation was taught to first year students.
- galaxyLogic 4y ago
  Why Technical Drawing is important? Because anything we envision in our mind is in essence a 3-D model. If we can draw it on paper it helps to clarify our thoughts. We can not envision anything 4-D, can we? Being able to draw 3-D objects on paper(or computer) with correct perspective is invaluable I now think.
  - pvaldes 4y ago
    > We can not envision anything 4-D, can we? We definitely can draw 4-D in paper. It just needs much more work.
    - galaxyLogic 4y ago
      I find it impossible to visualize 4-D objects in my head. On paper the best you can do I think is show the projection of a 4-D object onto 3-D space which is then projected onto the flat 2-D surface. But I still can't visualize how a 4-D object would "look" because it seems our brains are hardwired to comprehend "objects" as 3-dimensional beings.

galaxyLogic 4y ago

"could not overcome Heisenberg's complete lack of interest and gave up the effort" We all want to excel so naturally we pick topics which seem easy to us and thus can expect to excel further in them. If we did not do well in some topic earlier, we are not very interested in it, because the best we can hope is to do ok in that subject. I did not like "technical drawing" in my first year and so I found a way to pass without taking that course. Now I lament I didn't take it. But I wanted to excel, not be mediocre in something. I wish this psychological observation was taught to first year students.

galaxyLogic 4y ago
Why Technical Drawing is important? Because anything we envision in our mind is in essence a 3-D model. If we can draw it on paper it helps to clarify our thoughts. We can not envision anything 4-D, can we? Being able to draw 3-D objects on paper(or computer) with correct perspective is invaluable I now think.
- pvaldes 4y ago
  > We can not envision anything 4-D, can we? We definitely can draw 4-D in paper. It just needs much more work.
  - galaxyLogic 4y ago
    I find it impossible to visualize 4-D objects in my head. On paper the best you can do I think is show the projection of a 4-D object onto 3-D space which is then projected onto the flat 2-D surface. But I still can't visualize how a 4-D object would "look" because it seems our brains are hardwired to comprehend "objects" as 3-dimensional beings.