[lbo-talk] Speaking of grad school

[Wojtek S]

Andie N: "senior Prof in political science tried to persuade me to
write up my theory of Cold War military policy Into a dissertation,
although I don't know Russian. I told him thought this was a problem,
but he said it didn't!

  matter"

[WS:] And apparently he was right.  9/10th of expertise (and for that
matter academic teaching) is the ability to effectively project
self-confidence and authority, the remaining 1/10th being the actual
knowledge of the subject matter.

In other words, if you can effectively project self-confidence and
authority, who is going to know whether you actually know what you are
talking about, but if you cannot - most people will dismiss you
without even paying much attention to what you are saying.

PS.  I am currently reading Daniel Kahneman's "Thinking, Fast and
Slow"  - a good critique of the so-called expertise, especially in
social and political sciences and economics.

Nice to see you back.
-- 
Wojtek

"An anarchist is a neoliberal without money."