Drawing yet a bittersweet story. There's one word written all over this experience - "burn-out".
Science, just as any other domain of this human life does need these youthful, dreaming, some may call "naive", yet daring believers.
This energy is precious, just as it is also short-lived and fragile. If it sparks at a right moment and could burn for the needed time, it may bring into view those hard to find solutions to well known hard to crack problems.
However, should it glow at not so right time and for too long, that youthful source just burns out.
The best a wise advisor/mentor could do is to instill some burning discipline. Or the very least to recognize when the burning may become unsustainable. And intervene, channel it, help to recharge, lead.
Perhaps, developing this sort of discipline should be parents' job. Still, a lot of talented and strong minds simply overheat and shut off in one way or another just for self-preservation.
No blame for quitting. I just wonder if there a way to design these young minds for stronger more efficient TDP, so to speak?
Science, just as any other domain of this human life does need these youthful, dreaming, some may call "naive", yet daring believers.
This energy is precious, just as it is also short-lived and fragile. If it sparks at a right moment and could burn for the needed time, it may bring into view those hard to find solutions to well known hard to crack problems.
However, should it glow at not so right time and for too long, that youthful source just burns out.
The best a wise advisor/mentor could do is to instill some burning discipline. Or the very least to recognize when the burning may become unsustainable. And intervene, channel it, help to recharge, lead.
Perhaps, developing this sort of discipline should be parents' job. Still, a lot of talented and strong minds simply overheat and shut off in one way or another just for self-preservation.
No blame for quitting. I just wonder if there a way to design these young minds for stronger more efficient TDP, so to speak?