snein 29 maaie 2005
29
[...] 29 is the age at which you are most likely to have your first big, original idea. [...]
Absorbing the level of learning required to innovate now consumes the first three decades of life. “If one is to stand on the shoulders of giants, one must first climb up their backs, and the greater the body of knowledge, the harder this climb becomes,” says the report, funded by America’s National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). [...]
However, the wait is even longer for true genius to show. In the past century the age at which great inventors and Nobel prize winners made their life-changing discoveries increased by six years, with the average now just short of 40.
O yes, it seems I have already left a briliant future behind me. But then, true originality is never about sticking to what statistics tell.
