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Frank Lee's avatar

That explains quite a bit. I know many, many people with prestigious academic awards, and very few of them do I consider strong critical thinkers. Most of them are myopic in their thought patterns and miss the big picture. That makes sense since they had delayed their launch into the real world to focus on generally one academic discipline. They end up working for me. I hire and fire PhDs from Ivy League schools more often than you probably do any work with your hands.

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Lewis Grotelueschen's avatar

So I just sold my herd of cattle because I am no longer fast enough to evade a cow protecting her newborn calf. And I still farm a few acres on the side. And I spend a lot of time on the shop floor of my business. But this must all be a lie because the expert in critical thinking checked his meager inventory of mental concepts and couldn't find that such a creature could exist.

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Frank Lee's avatar

An Ivy League phd and a rancher? Well that is sure common.

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