Its not. Archived Message
Posted by Shyaku on February 11, 2023, 6:16 pm, in reply to "Re: Priceless! Ranges far and wide. Not a superfluous word. Scary stuff, mind."
Its not a hidden understanding. The reason he is deft is because he is thinking about these questions the whole time - turning them over in his mind, reading, percolating, reading, percolating. This is what being an academic is all about - enough profound interest in specific topics to never be very far away from them, always something you were just thinking about a few hours ago - it makes it a bit easier to respond quickly. And he has been doing this for 90 years or whatever. Simply, not many people on this planet are like that. Not even actually most academics. They don’t want to give their lives to just thinking and reading, they want to do something else too. Like pursue power and ambition, for example. - Shyaku
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