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Marvin Minsky: Continually Innovate


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00:00:00.000 | When I tried to read mathematics, it would take an hour a page and I'd get some of the ideas but not others.
00:00:08.000 | And usually it would be six months later that suddenly it would click.
00:00:13.240 | And so I think I thought of myself as sort of slow, but I never grew up in some sense.
00:00:21.800 | And as far as I can tell, I've been getting better at things slowly and steadily.
00:00:27.640 | It was only when I was older that I noticed that most people do something wonderful and then they get stuck.
00:00:36.240 | And I started to make theories of why do people get stuck and how to avoid it.
00:00:42.360 | And the best thing is to, if you've done something, you should be ashamed of it instead of proud of it.
00:00:48.840 | And I notice a lot of people keep saying, "Well, I thought of that a long time ago," and they keep trying to get recognition.
00:00:57.560 | And why bother?