[mashepp]

> The greatest engineer, scientist and inventor of all time, Stanford Ovshinsky, absolutely had no problem excelling in any field he put his mind to.

So, because the greatest engineer according to your words excels at something. So it's easy for everybody to do the same?

[Gud]

”the most competent”.

Possibly there was a smarter mechanical engineer than Mr. Ovshinsky, it would be hard for anyone to argue he wasn’t in the top 0.1% in his field(s).

Why a top engineer in the field of making petrol powered cars shouldn’t be able to quickly learn a “new field”, using quotation marks here because electric cars have been around for >100 years, is beyond my understanding.

[idiotsecant]

Do you think individual technical contribution is the hardest part of retooling an entire industrial supply chain? Making a car is easy.

[thechao]

As per "Gung Ho", starring ~Batman~ Michael Keaton.