BTW, it just so happens that one of the mathematicians who came up with the first solution to Smale's paradox was blind:<p><pre><code> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Morin
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Something to think about, next time we brood on our own supposed handicaps ("aww, I started my education too late / I'm too slow at reading books / YC rejected my startup / etc etc whine whine ...")