2015-05-12
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One interesting thing to consider about even the most brilliant people that I've ever lived is
that many of them spend years and years of their lives in a state of complete confusion about what would eventually become their area of expertise.
You know, it's funny to think back to someone like an Immanuel Kant, like an Albert Einstein, a Sir Isaac Newton.
And it's easy to project onto these people this air of invincibility, right?
It's easy to think of Kant as someone that was like a philosophical prodigy,
you know, somehow he was just born with the ability to revolutionize thought.
But in reality, even someone like Kant spent many years of his life in a state of limbo,
really, baffled, just baffled about how to move forward with anything.
I want to take you back in time for a second to the earlier years of Kant's career.
When he was but a young man from a poor family living in Prussia, he was very much interested in philosophy.
He was reading a bunch of it.
He had put out work on it.
You know, he spent much of his early life writing on various things in the realms of science and philosophy.
But if you read what he was writing during this period in his life, something was missing from it.
He's kind of all over the place when it came to his fundamentals.
Like if you read his earlier work, you'll see that, you know, the stuff all sounds very Kantian at its core.