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Dwarkesh Patel — Podcasting, Talent & Innovation (EP.147)

Infinite Loops

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Is There a Corollary of Those Two Intelligences?

Some of the most important center discoveries in an entire century happened by one person in one year. Why do these luminaries tend to have these incredibly concentrated periods of productivity? One is that maybe there's just a brief amount of time in your life where you're young and can think through problems really fast. Another possibility might be that if you win a Nobel Prize, you're never going to have free time again.

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