>>12632197People generally think that there is some sort of "capacity" for doing something new, which is absolutely demented. If you have a normal brain and some time on your hands, you're about as qualified to discover General Relativity as Einstein, or to do whatever else. You just have to sit down and force yourself to do it, especially when it becomes hard. And that takes thousands of hours of single-minded effort, and it requires a sense of what exactly needs to be done, and it requires tolerance of a great deal of failure along the way, without taking this as an indication that you are somehow defective. Everyone around you is roughly as competent as the best people at about any intellectual task, at least if they avoid hard drugs, aren't handicapped in some obvious way, and weren't raised by wolves.
