All the exceptional people I have met have all thrived from positive social interactions with others with shared or overlapping interests. IOW, I don’t believe

All the exceptional people I have met have all thrived from positive social interactions with others with shared or overlapping interests. IOW, I don’t believe at all that genius thrives in isolation. Unfortunately, we tend to bury intellectual curiosity (“play”) in burdens like coursework, or endless distractions (curse of the Internet)