Re: Terrible threat to science - a Grim warning

cd12dc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


There are a few "universal geniuses", though, who apparently managed
to get both together - maybe by using the one kind of thinking in
their work and the other kind of thinking in social (and career)
functions.

Don't we all do that? Most people have different personas for different situations. It's a natural adaptation, I think. I remember being irritated for years by my brother who had nothing to say about the social circle in Cape Town in his e-mails to me because he sent them from work where he was in his working persona.

I'm not saying everybody employs rational thinking at work, but, that, if they ever do, then you'd expect this sort of division. Not all mathematicians marry mathematicians - of course many don't, understandably, get married at all, but those that do must manage to get some sort of different persona together.

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