[MichaelZuo]

You say this ironically, but someone who’s been working hard 15 hours 7 days a week in a niche, 50 weeks a year, from age 15 to age 29 has clearly a much higher potential than a 45 year old following the normal path in life.

And almost certainly a higher employable value too unless they have catastrophically bad social skills…

[chipsrafferty]

Let's say they sleep 6 hours a day, every day.

Someone who works for 15 out of 18 of their waking hours, leaving 3 hours to eat, exercise, and have any semblance of social interactions or secondary interests, for FOURTEEN YEARS is not a genius. They are actually an idiot, wasting their life.

[lovich]

Did they develop those social skills during the free time they had?

[MichaelZuo]

Why does this matter?

They can develop it while lying in bed and daydreaming for all the difference it makes.

[lovich]

The implication was that someone who dedicated all of their time as physically possible to working and studying, would not have had time to develop social skills

[MichaelZuo]

Talented people can improve in multiple directions at the same time… unless you don’t believe this?

Plus any 29 year old who can actually land a genuine 500k-600k USD compensation job at a big company is a literal genius, at the very least.

[lovich]

Do you honestly believe that an individual who

>… been working hard 15 hours 7 days a week in a niche, 50 weeks a year, from age 15 to age 29…

Developed the same level of social skills as the average individual who lived a more normal schedule?

I have to ask before you even answer that. Do you believe that social skills are something to be practiced and built upon, are they some waste of time they only hormones bother with, or some other option I haven’t considered?

[MichaelZuo]

They can develop, in many aspects, far superior to an average individual given the same amount of time.

And develop to a comparable level given a much shorter period of time.

That’s pretty much by definition for literal geniuses.