Charles PenceMar 10

It is very interesting, as I get older, to realize that what looked like "brilliance" from senior faculty members when I was young was just "hey this person has read *a lot* and is pretty good at remembering and connecting lots of interesting things about what they read"

You, too, can cultivate this brilliance if you read *a lot* and practice connecting dots

Show threadDoug Belshaw

@pence I was talking with my 15 year-old daughter recently about how adults (well, intelligent ones) can talk in multiple paragraphs about certain topics "off the top of their head" because they've said these things multiple times before.

As you noted, these things are accretive, and given that things bear repeating, it's probably a good strategy.

Mar 10 at 9:12amWeb