Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s

Re:Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s by a_bonobo on Sunday February 16, 2014 @08:23PM (#7250142)

>According to Born into This, a documentary on Bukowski's life, Martin, offered Bukowski 100 dollars per month for life on condition that Bukowski would quit working for the post office and write full-time. He agreed and Post Office was written within a month.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Martin_%28publisher%29

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Re:Big Breakthroughs Come in Your Late 30s by dredmorbius on Sunday February 16, 2014 @10:00PM (#7250398)

Thanks. That snip doesn't make particularly clear when this happened, though from Bukowski's biography, I'd guess 1969 or thereabouts (as noted in my other comment on the value of $100/mo today).

This also somewhat calls into question what's required for genius to foster. Seems that some people are simply driven to create, and any environment in which they're free to focus on their creative efforts, and have financial concerns taken off the table (I've seen similar arguments made for tech hires: pay me enough money to not have to worry about it) is sufficient.

There's also Daniel Pink's work in Drive.

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