# Is anyone exceptionally talented at something you have no interest in doing **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [December 28, 2015, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-exceptionally-talented-at-something-you-have-no-interest-in-doing/741593 "2015-12-28T20:38:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 8
**Author:** ![Cognoscant](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Cognoscant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cognoscant)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2015, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-exceptionally-talented-at-something-you-have-no-interest-in-doing/741593/8 "2015-12-28T23:10:53Z")
> [@Doper NCAA Pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doper-ncaa-pool/97451/13): > > What about people who could’ve changed math or science, have there been any real life will huntings who turned down the field for various reasons? I won a scholarship to a top university for a specialized field. I did well enough in grad school to get another big scholarship and a teaching offer. I did get to know some of the top names in the field well. But my grad experience had been a massive slog, I went through a very bad divorce during it, and I was hospitalized for a nervous breakdown. I did finish my degree but almost literally put my books on a shelf and never read them again. My supervisor later called me “the lost one.” A former girlfriend called me A Beautiful Mind. I wonder what could have been. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-anyone-exceptionally-talented-at-something-you-have-no-interest-in-doing/741593)._