Although the First Few Years of an Intellectual Life…

Although the first few years of an intellectual life seem by far the most fruitful, in which each one of them seems to bring about a complete transformation in knowledge, after a certain time, although progress seems to lose momentum, the gain in direction is remarkable. In other words: at the beginning, when everything is new, we discover a lot, but knowledge expands simultaneously in many directions, and we can hardly see a direction, we can hardly see where the effort will lead. After a few years, we make far fewer mistakes, and although the difficulties increase, we move forward more consciously towards where we want to be.