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Coming from someone in russia who studied in mgu lomonosov and autistically studied cs, math, engineering and some physics on his own in a free time
The answer is: I don’t think so. I am pretty naturally good at math and I’ve worked at it for a long time. For a while I kept getting better but then I hit a wall and really plateaued. I certainly know more math now that I did when I was 20, and have more experience and more maturity, but I really don’t think I’m all that much better today than I was then. And I don’t see any of my friends and colleagues just getting better and better and better.
I think we’ve all got a horizontal asymptote on our abilities.
This is not unique to any other field.
No matter how long I work at it I’ll never be as good a composer as Beethoven, as good a playwright as Shakespeare, as good a tennis player as Rafael Nadal in his prime, as good an artist as Picasso, or as good a chess player as Magnus Carlson. Nor will I ever be as handsome as David Gandy
Totally not worth it. Wasted so much time when i could easily get a normal engineering job and chill, get real life, etc..
Instead i wanted to feel superior to normies and quickly realised i will never amount to anything in science
If you don't think you are naturally very gifted, don't waste your life like this, you will be disappointed old man with superiority complex and lost youth. Kill me
The answer is: I don’t think so. I am pretty naturally good at math and I’ve worked at it for a long time. For a while I kept getting better but then I hit a wall and really plateaued. I certainly know more math now that I did when I was 20, and have more experience and more maturity, but I really don’t think I’m all that much better today than I was then. And I don’t see any of my friends and colleagues just getting better and better and better.
I think we’ve all got a horizontal asymptote on our abilities.
This is not unique to any other field.
No matter how long I work at it I’ll never be as good a composer as Beethoven, as good a playwright as Shakespeare, as good a tennis player as Rafael Nadal in his prime, as good an artist as Picasso, or as good a chess player as Magnus Carlson. Nor will I ever be as handsome as David Gandy
Totally not worth it. Wasted so much time when i could easily get a normal engineering job and chill, get real life, etc..
Instead i wanted to feel superior to normies and quickly realised i will never amount to anything in science
If you don't think you are naturally very gifted, don't waste your life like this, you will be disappointed old man with superiority complex and lost youth. Kill me
