>>todsac+(OP)
> there shouldn't be any additional pressure other than the pure drive to know and understand. When you are in academia, this is very hard to achieve, maybe even impossible.

There was a time this has been the case. How far we have come. Relevant: https://amp.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-...

>>jl6+IL
“Then,” said the Alchemist, “we have discovered something surprising. The art of architecture is limited by the human lifespan. The greatest building that can ever be designed is the one that would take seventy years of studying architecture to master; God has drawn a line in the sand forever closing off buildings grander than these.”

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/09/ars-longa-vita-brevis/

>>todsac+(OP)
Shameless plug: I created website [1] to help with this. It's like an online paper club where you can ask questions / get answers from the authors and community on research papers, directly on the PDF.

[1] https://gotit.pub