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Episode #108 - Self Taught Genius w/ George Hrabovsky

Math & Physics Podcast

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How Do You Pick and Choose What You Research?

"I have a cabinet here and I have like 20 research notebooks," he says. "If I get grabbed by something, of course, then I'll just have 15 or 20 pages done and then I'll put aside." He was depressed in his 30s because all the easy problems had been done; wife told him to work on quantum gravity. 'The graveyards are filled with theorists who died on that hill'

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