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Re:In the past, I've had students call my problem sets “emot... by cycomanic on Wednesday January 18, 2023 @03:58AM (#34424778)
Funny thing, as a researcher myself one thing the main thing that makes you successful in my experience is a high frustration threshold. While there are some truly brilliant people, even then run into roadblocks, dead ends etc.. It makes sense you are venturing out into the unknown (that's what research is really), not giving up when getting stuck is what makes people achieve something.
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Re:In the past, I've had students call my problem sets “emot... by kwhitefoot on Friday January 20, 2023 @01:12PM (#34457204)
Didn't Einstein say something like the reason he worked out General Relativity first was that he stayed with the problem longer rather than that we was actually smarter than all the others in the field?

And there is Edison's aphorism, something like "Invention is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration."

There is plenty to do for those who are not the absolute smartest.

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