how did people like Isaac Newton, Kant, Michelangelo, Beethoven… all the greats… find the time?

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The output of historic geniuses is just insane. The sheer amount of work and discovery and creation they did seems too much for one lifetime. I just don’t understand how they managed all they did.

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Passion and a lack of distractions explain a lot of it. Plus they weren’t from the working class so they didn’t have to waste their lives toiling in fields or mines or factories.

“I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain, than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweat shops.”- Steven Jay Gould

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