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Life is rife with little timers, and in any case removing them doesn’t change the relative results. High scorers today would use the extra time better just like they use the given time now, and end up the high scorers of tomorrow as well.
If we were all tasked with precisely the same work + challenges in life, this would probably be an important truth. But as it stands, there are plenty of problems to go around, & the scientist who makes his breakthrough in 2 years & the one who makes his in 20 are both celebrated
And then there are all the people who are stuck less by their cognitive ability than their perception of it, and their inability to summon the courage to continue trying to learn even after receiving the various labels we use for "dumb"
Yeah we’ve looked for such people and they don’t exist. Again, it would be nice if there was a reserve army of geniuses waiting for nothing more expensive than a dose of encouragement. Decades of frantic searching haven’t found one.
Look, I get it. Life would be nicer if the tortoise could win. But that’s not the way to bet or make policy. It’s just what we say to sooth our slower kids. Those 20 year breakthroughs don’t come from dumb hard workers. They come from smart people solving extra hard problems.
I'm not saying that every human mind can solve any problem given a lifetime. Give me a neurodegenerative disease or other brain damage & many ideas may fall out of reach. Likewise, successful scientists tend to have high IQs —but not all of them & certainly not to the same degree
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