“You’re over the hill by 30” (Einstien).
It takes 10k hours of study to excel (Gladwell)
Or, think again!
Good stuff, creativity, originality and success continue happening way into old age.
Before falling in line with society’s ageist propaganda, watch Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein.
Which one are you? A thermometer measures the ambient temperature of its milieu. It checks and reports. A thermostat on the other hand responds to its environment. It also checks, but then it makes little adjustments… it actually influences the environment. You might say that a thermometer is a rather passive receptor, and a thermostat […]
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Continue readingWe are problem-solving creatures. We love a challenge and without them we don’t grow and mature fully.
It would be great if an under-used intellect could set its owner crosswords and Sudoku to keep itself busy, but it doesn’t.
What happens next?
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One Response to “Over the Hill by 30? Think Again”
For a theoretical physicist like Einstein, most productive work, the big hits, do strongly tend to happen under 30. R
Einstein was finished after 30,no more breakthroughs, just quotes and fame. Not so for most of us.