Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists

Posted by Willful on August 23, 2012, at 17:22:38

In reply to Re: Too bad we aren't well enough to be scientists » alchemy, posted by phidippus on August 23, 2012, at 7:23:23

I didn't think Phillipus did anything so awful. Maybe s/he got defensive-- but Scott was being pretty accusatory.
Maybe no one else feels this, but for myself, but I don't so much like Scott's saying that he is so far below his intellectual level, when many people here have acknowledged him as very intellectually sophisticated and informed. Many people look to him for guidance and judgment, and I wonder if it doesn't reflect some depressive sense of perfectionism that he believes he has fallen so far below his level. And it is not kind to others who admire him so much.
The length of time it takes to write a sentence or paragraph isn't a measure of intellectual ability, or performance-- the content of the sentence is- Many people write slowly or revise over and over and over.
And many people don't have the intellectual fortitude to study and read pages of intellectual material under any circumstances.
I don't know Scott-- I don't know his level of achievement or his underlying ability, but I 'm not clear at all how he become so fixed on the idea that he has so underachieved compared to the potential that he has.
All of us-- have failed to achieve our dreams, and all of us are less that the self that we can imagine.
and I don't mean all of on Babble-- I mean all of us in the world.

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