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29 Apr 2020 Conversations with Tyler Glen Weyl on Fighting COVID-19 and the Role of the Academic Expert
“I think I developed intellectually much more quickly than a lot of my peers, and I developed physically and emotionally a lot more slowly.”
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…What’s your own account of why you were so successful before the age of 27? I think I developed intellectually much more quickly than a lot of my peers, and I developed physically and emotionally a lot more slowly. Eventually I had to balance those things out. But as it turned out, that made me very unsuccessful until I got into high school, very successful from high school through the very beginning of my career. And then, I faced a number of challenges because of it after that. There are just different times in life where different forms of development are more important than others. If you’re looking for talent in young economists, other than the obvious, like people who work hard, what is it you look for?…
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