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The failure mode of academic science is that it actively punishes the careers of really smart people who fail to achieve product-market fit on the prescribed schedule (i.e. by end of first postdoc). Lots of great potential PIs wash out for this reason.
At that point they've typically had 8-10 years to achieve it, or about a quarter of an entire career. How much longer do you think they should typically have?
It's much less time than that if you exclude graduate training, when a person is still learning how to do science and has very little independence in most labs.
I find that incredibly uncompelling. If someone has 5 years to work on improving at something, they usually show substantial progress. If they don't, it's usually - not always - a sign that it's not going to work. It's often money coming out of taxpayer's pockets, too.
I think you might be talking somewhat past each other? Michael is right in that *typically* 8-10 years should be enough. David is right in that *sometomes* it's very possible to do everything right and still fail to do this and it's important to be able to find "late-bloomers"?
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