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Published · transcript-backedTheodore Schwartz: belief
21 May 2025 Conversations with Tyler Theodore Schwartz on Neurosurgery, Consciousness, and Brain-Computer Interfaces
“I would say the middle of that bell-shaped curve is going to be late 60s, early 70s.”
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- Theodore Schwartz
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- 21 May 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…But on average, right? A basketball player, on average, by age 38 is over the hill but LeBron is pretty good at 40. I would say somewhere in the early 70s. There are surgeons in their early 70s who are quite good. There’s going to be a bell-shaped curve. You understand that, obviously. Some people are going to be on the tail end of that curve and operate well later than that. I would say the middle of that bell-shaped curve is going to be late 60s, early 70s. Do you think neurosurgeons are a group of people with excess self-confidence? The stakes are so high. It’s so nerve-wracking. You had to get through a lot of years of work even to get there.…
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