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>I don’t think a field medalist would waste his time with an untalented youth.

Ugh. Do you think a Fields medalist would "waste" his time cleaning his bedroom? Folding his clothes?

1. The world is much more menial than you think it is.

2. Fields medalists are, unsurprisingly, human beings, and keep doing human stuff like making new friends just for fun.

3. Not everyone is living under the weird delusion/obsession where all outcomes have to be maximally favorable for "life to be worth it". Not all companies have to be billion dollar companies. Not all students have to go and win Fields medals.

4. The "untalented youth" is much more interesting than what you give them credit for.