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Thanks, this was a great essay, and very compelling. Obviously there are more factors than the decline of personal tutoring (James Joyce, Johannes Kepler, Shakespeare-if-you-agree-Shakespeare-is-Shakespeare didn't have tutors). It had me thinking of another problem, also appearing around 1950, which for the glibness of this comment I'll call the Decline of Boredom. How much does boredom play into creative thought, and what does constant stimulus do to suppress that creative thought? Might it be that genius was created on a rainy day when the genius was thinking of something to do? God, how I miss boredom! (Words child-me would never, ever have believed I'd someday say.) Our current pace of life is exhausting and occurs in a modern environment that unrelentingly trains us toward short attention. It all leaves me too worn-through most of the time for the kind of deep thought and engagement that I did as a child, and which I would very much love to do again. I strongly suspect it's not ju

Comments - Why we stopped making Einsteins - by Erik Hoel The Intrinsic Perspective Subscribe Sign in Why we stopped making Einsteins Erik Hoel Mar 16, 2022 1,343 308 146 Aristocratic tutoring I: Explaining the decline of genius Read → 308 Comments Top first James Maynard Mar 16, 2022 Liked by Erik Hoel Thanks, this was a great essay, and very compelling. Obviously there are more factors than the decline of personal tutoring (James Joyce, Johannes Kepler, Shakespeare-if-you-agree-Shakespeare-is-Shakespeare didn't have tutors). It had me thinking of another problem, also appearing around 1950,

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