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I cannot praise this enough. The greatest achievements in the world have come from a gathering of bright and passionate people, discussing and vetting their ide
by FD3SA 13y ago
I cannot praise this enough. The greatest achievements in the world have come from a gathering of bright and passionate people, discussing and vetting their ideas together.
As deep thinkers, we tend to seek isolation to focus the entirety of our mental faculty on a particular problem. In this quest to make efficient use of our biological computing device, we forget that we are indeed humans forged through evolutionary processes, and that our very sanity depends on a positively reinforcing social foundation.
The most difficult task is finding like minded individuals, who would spontaneously coalesce as if by a force of nature but are held apart due to spatial or temporal separation. Once this initial barrier is overcome, such minds become inseparable and often go on to do great things. History is abound with examples such as Godel and Einstein, whose friendship began in the most extraordinary of circumstances but ended up changing our very understanding of the universe.
So good luck, and god speed!
- thoughtcriminal 13y agoThe greatest achievements in the world have come from a gathering of bright and passionate people, discussing and vetting their ideas together. Nonsense. Any equal number of "greatest" achievements have come from a individuals working persistently in solitude, in humble settings.
- thirdtruck 13y agoEach of which only only mattered to the world at large because many others proceeded to spread and implement those achievements.
- obviouslygreen 13y agoSure... now we're debating on what proportion of an undefined set conforms to whose preconceptions. This is intelligent. We could avoid all of this if people would just learn to make their points without also having to jump to outrageous and/or totally unsubstantiated conclusions in addition to just stating what would otherwise be a perfectly valid opinion.