There must be a reason all (most) great ideas seem to come from kids in college. The atmosphere is stressful, hellish, overwhelming. At the end of the day, you’re just exhausted. But this in turn, makes everything else seem like the most fun thing to do in the world, thus inciting motivation.
crestind
Another tube in the series of tubes.
I surely recall that being true. There is a certain selectivity to college that would partially explain the phenomenon to which you refer. People who go to college are brighter than the general population and generally come from a somewhat higher socioeconomic strata of society. They generally have more of a desire to or love of learning than most. Finally, they are still young enough not to understand “you can’t do that” so tend to think out of the box more than do older people (even graduate students). There must be more reasons than this, but those are some factors that come to mind without having to do any work like thinking too hard.
Peace, Doc
I don’t think the love of learning is necessarily a reason. Most people go to college simply for a better shot at getting a job. I agree with all the other points though. There was an interesting article recently that mentioned several of those as well.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/worklife/08/21/student.entrepreneurs/index.html