Many famous scientists have something in common: they didn’t work long hours

Re:Many famous scientists have something in common: they did... by Retric on Thursday March 30, 2017 @09:42PM (#14000607)

I am not saying they are more likely to end up in prison. Rather, if you rank people and pick the top ~1/1000 and then preform about as well as the top 1/10 there is something wrong with your ranking.

PS: I also had a valedictorian sister who went on to Disney and is now a solid cog in their profit machine. The trap is she never really had a need to strike out on her own. Another sister was salutatorian and became a nursery school teacher. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Re:Many famous scientists have something in common: they did... by Spooky23 on Friday March 31, 2017 @10:30AM (#14004145)

If they are happy and fulfilled, they are successful.

Until recently where startups have turned into a strange variant of hedge fund, many successful entrepreneurs were frankly oddball types who needed to work for themselves.

One of my cousins is a prep-school/Harvard MBA/Columbia Law school type who is flipping goofy startups instead of closing factories or doing investment banking things. Startups aren't startups anymore when organization men are attracted to it.

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