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Ambition, Accolades, Life Advice, and the Paradox of Striking Graduate Students: Brian Keating and James Altucher in Conversation (#282)
Into the Impossible With Brian Keating
Graduate School Is Like an Apprenticeship in a Lot of Ways
At what point in life do you let kind of elder statesmanship take over after youthful ambition and passion? For physics certainly, it's probably the peak age where people do their peak research. Einstein was in his 20s when he wrote his most useful papers. Nobody goes into being a grad student to make money. You're doing it so you can exceed the person you're apprenticing with.
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