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by rckrd 4127 days ago
I think that genius takes extraordinary intellect but also a penchant for timing. Solve interesting problems, but also at the right time.

A way to overcome this is the Erdos approach: have a backlog of problems in your mind and allowed them to be solved naturally as you learn and new discoveries are made. Maybe that is why he was such a prolific mathematician.