« For men to plunge headlong into an undertaking of vast change […] they must be wholly ignorant of the difficulties involved in their vast undertaking. Experience is a handicap. »pic.twitter.com/EC6foroRYF
Related: https://twitter.com/michael_nielsen/status/992938086307778560 … A good way to avoid this, IMO, is to seek younger mentors. I know people pushing 80 who are still doing great creative work - but they have many mentors in their 20s and 30s.
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These must be awesome, egoless people
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I have three people in particular in mind. Egoless is not how most people would describe them, to put it mildly.
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Is there a howto on that?
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Befriend younger people whose work you admire, and spend time learning from them. Either informally, or in collaboration.
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Hans Bethe? Francis Crick? Freeman Dyson? Charles Townes? Why does pride cause cognitive inflexibility?
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