On the importance of not achieving anything

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  • 24/11/2023

    On the importance of not achieving anything

    Psychology Lost a Great Mind – Nautilus

    At a dinner one night, a first-year graduate student noted how he preferred his new intellectual freedom to the pressure for immediate results he had endured in industry:

    “I like coming home at the end of the day not having accomplished anything.”

    John replied, “Young man, you have a bright future in academia.”

    Steve Pinker writing about John Tooby who died earlier this month.