How to Think Like a Genius 5— Children
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen and Rick Rosner
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Rick Rosner)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2017/07/01
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Scott Douglas Jacobsen: What about women having children by nature, by biology, and that putting a brake/break on career progress, if they choose to have children?
Rick Rosner: Physicists and mathematicians there’s a kind of saying that for the best of them they’re done by their 30s. For some reason, whatever let them make the huge breakthroughs, thought runs out by 40 at the latest. it could be adult responsibilities. It could be that people only get a few big breakthroughs in thought and once they’re out you’ve shot your wad, but physicists and mathematicians are cooked by 40, but, again, is one of those things that was probably garbage.
Erdos was doing math being the wandering math guy until he dropped dead, but let’s just say for the sake of whatever that you are cooked by 35 or 40. Well, then, the having of babies stuff and women are having babies later in life than ever before at least in the developed countries. So, there’s plenty God! I am going to get trapped in inadvertently sexist reasoning here.
you can do geniusey stuff at any time and in any environment if you set it up. It’s not saying that people can have it all, but if somebody is going to be the early genius. they may do that before they’re having a kid. There are plenty of countries in the world in which having a kid and in which measures having a kid does not interrupt your career momentum or interrupts it less.
That having a baby thing is just an excuse and shouldn’t be regarded in our current — or as an old timey excuse to fuck over women. It is something that can be worked around.
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