/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.12060836]

>Anyone who was ever truly good at anything started when they were a child
warum leben

[Anonymous No.12060859]

>>12060836
>everyone starts to go to school as a child
>barely anyone is good at it

[Anonymous No.12060878]

>>12060836

I'm pretty good at not being a child. Didn't start doing that 'til I was an adult.

[Anonymous No.12060889]

The world's greatest scrabble player got shit grades in English and played the game for the first time when he was 28

[Anonymous No.12060901]

patently untrue of savants, but you're pretty much correct. better hope to be reincarnated into a kid with a tiger mom

[Anonymous No.12060908]

>>12060836
Yes prodigies and geniuses tend to see their talents blossom and become ascendant over most adults in that skill or field by the time they hit adolescence. Feynman taught himself Calculus when he was quite young; Ramanujan would just make up math problems and proofs in his head for fun all day as a child and most literary geniuses were multilingual and devouring the canon before they hit high school. If you did not show these flashes of power before you hit adulthood you are almost definitely inferior to them. Will you weep?

[Anonymous No.12060947]

I do not like to brag but I seem to become truly good at everything that I try in an extremely short time frame.

[Anonymous No.12060965]

>>12060947
I could mock you for saying this but I won't. I can't be sure you aren't telling the truth. Do you have any evidence for this knack, anon?

[Anonymous No.12060992]

>>12060908
i lost the ability to shed tears long ago lol
one of the remaining reasons i still walk the earth is to share the crushing reality of depressive realism with the handful of people on the internet with good enough taste to be here

[Anonymous No.12060999]

>>12060947
you have never tried your hand at anything worthwhile in any meaningful fashion

[Anonymous No.12061026]

Just apply yourself.

Late bloomers are rare but not nonexistent.

[Anonymous No.12061042]

>>12060908
>Ramanujan would just make up math problems and proofs in his head for fun all day as a child.

As a child I explored the woods with girls and skateboarded and rode bikes and trespassed and got chased by dogs all day for fun. That is what a real childhood looks like. You have 70 years to muss about mathematical formulas (in Ramanujan case only 32 years, likely died so early from the stress of his unfulfilling childhood)

[Anonymous No.12061073]

>>12061042
He lived a short life but everyone will remember his name. Yours will disappear in three generations. If there is any chance at immortality it's what he achieved. In the end it doesn't really matter much because he experiences none of it but its still better than nothing.

[Anonymous No.12061077]

>>12061042
>likely died so early from the stress
lmfao absolute medical luddite

[Anonymous No.12061122]

>>12061026
>equivalent of "just be yourself"

[Anonymous No.12061193]

>>12061073
> Everyone will remember his name.

Not me; I had to copy paste his name into Google Search because I have never heard of him. Do not kid yourself with this nonsense of being "remembered" as anything resembling immortality, because I can get myself truly remembered beyond your wildest imaginations after a quick read of Sun Tzu's "Art of War" and a visit to the nearest gun store shortly afterwards if you understand where I am coming from. Thankfully, I am completely satisfied with being forgotten.

[Anonymous No.12061229]

>>12061193
you're a brainlet and should not be on /lit/

[Anonymous No.12061249]

>>12061229
you're a brainlet and should not be on /lit/

[Anonymous No.12061678]

>>12060836
Not true. Plotinus started at age 27.

[Anonymous No.12061686]

>>12061249
>>12061229
You’re both brainlets and you’re both right where you belong

[Anonymous No.12061702]

>>12060836
Because you can still be somewhat good, which is better than being shit all your life.

[Anonymous No.12061715]

There are plenty of great poets and authors who never opened a book until their 20s and produces their best works with no knowledge of canon. It's as if academia is worthless and what's canon or not is worthless and consumption doesn't necessitate production . It's not about prodigies and your life isn't some evangelical previously decided thing . So many people here subscribe to the false pretense that their lives were already decided at birth and because they were not born in the circumstances that allowed them to know and study "the proper thing" they're nothing .

[Anonymous No.12061732]

bullshit, thats ressentiment.

[Anonymous No.12061749]

>>12060908
>There exist geniuses who were special since they were children.
>Therefore all geniuses were special since they were children.

kys