Re: Cavendish, I liked this snippet from The Experimental Life, about his attention to experiential detailpic.twitter.com/5zOObHLsiY
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Re: Cavendish, I liked this snippet from The Experimental Life, about his attention to experiential detailpic.twitter.com/5zOObHLsiY
OMG. He’s come up for a totally different reason in researching a page on sharpened perceptual attention. I had no idea about this!
Tx! I follow him too and was also startled by the coincidence.
Doesn't really change the question of how we support people like this today, but I do often wonder how many people are like this primarily because growing up smarter than everyone around you is super traumatic. If we'd supported them better as kids what would they be like?
One possibility is that they'd be even better at science than they are now. Another is that they only developed their particular intellectual obsessions as a trauma response.
How did we ever do it? We take for granted now that one has to be a hypersocial grifter to survive. What kind of society proactively finds places for people whose attention is on their work?
Seems the secret in the case of Cavendish was noble blood and thus assured funding and social position.pic.twitter.com/8Ykuftc9My
Oliver Heaviside could usually be found sitting on a granite slab in his empty house, attired in a pink silk kimono.pic.twitter.com/fUahFS6ZQm
My eccentricities pale before this great man. I salute England’s ability to leave space for those like us, sometimes.
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