Re:I'm 20, brilliant and totally lost
by zackattack on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @02:55PM
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Stop downvoting him. Sublimated sex drive is an incredibly powerful force, and drives thousands of people to take up positions in society (doctor, lawyer, programmer) instead of wandering the earth, content with food and drink.
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Is sexual sublimation considered a valid psychological concept these days? Isn't this part of Freud's theories and isn't most of that considered defunct?
Paul Erdős never married or had kids; that biological fact alone is thought to account for his prolific mathematical output (and why we have an Erdős number).
Re:I'm 20, brilliant and totally lost
by potatolicious on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @04:00PM
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But what if I want to marry/have kids, and don't give a hoot about my mathematical output?
Whatever makes people happy eh? Not everyone needs to be an Einstein.
Re:I'm 20, brilliant and totally lost
by zackattack on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @09:14PM
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You're being defensive. All he said was that Erdös had high output and it was postulated to be related to his lack of family life. Nobody here is making value judgments about a prescribed good life.
Re:I'm 20, brilliant and totally lost
by zackattack on Tuesday October 27, 2009 @05:57PM
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You need to stop treating things you read as dogma and start critically evaluating them.