#350 Originals 12

Originals 12 Conceptual and Experimental People under thirty-five make change happen. People over forty-five die in terms of new ideas. Orson Welles made Citizen Kane when he was twenty-five. Alfred Hitchcock made his films a lot older: 59(Vertigo), 60(North by Northwest) and 61(Psycho). Conceptual people think of a big idea and try to achieve it. Experimental people work by trying different things. Conceptual economists did their work at 43. Experimental economists at 61. Half of Nobel Prize-winning physicists under thirty were conceptual. 92% of physicists over 45 were experimental. Einstein was conceptual but became experimental as he got older. Mark Twain published Adventures of Huckleberry Finn when he was 49. Twain was also experimental. Leonardo da Vinci was experimental, taking years to finish this greatest paintings. Martin Luther King, Jr. was experimental. Slow and thoughtful often work bette for the older person. -- Hosting provided by SoundOn