[huijzer]

> it's due to them simply not recognizing that they could actually take their time and enjoy life

Ah sure he went on to work extremely hard and build a whole foundry business just because he didn’t recognize that he could actually take his time and enjoy life? I think you’re sort of right but also wrong. Telling an extremely ambitious person to “just enjoy life” is, I think, like telling an autistic person to “just be social”. It’s not as simple as that.

[creer]

Did you miss my "That wasn't the case for Chang"?

Chang had a specific reason to be quick anyway: his promotion at Texas Instrument would wait only so long.

As for other more common, younger foreign Stanford students - they can be autistic but they can also simply be young and not made aware of what the options really are. Believe it or not but university programs (credit system, years allowable for this or that, costs), school stipends, TA-ships, available scholarships, school schedule, even credit and banking or friendship expectations are completely different in their home country. They didn't think to find a mentor and nobody sought them out to point out what they really should be aware of. So yes, "simply not recognizing".