John Balkam on Nostr: The delusional, conceited intellectual thinks to themselves, "if everyone else would ...

The delusional, conceited intellectual thinks to themselves, "if everyone else would just think more like me, all of my ideas would be proven correct."

We have FAR too many intellectuals like this in society at the moment. (Cough, Paul Krugman) And their arrogance is suffocating for the rest of us.

What we need is more people with the mindset of the engineer or the entrepreneur.

The realistic entrepreneur thinks, "I have a theory on how to fix a perceived problem, let me test it out and see if it is truly a problem and if my theory can fix it." When an engineer or entrepreneur discovers through experimentation that their theory is false, they tweak it until they get closer to the truth. And they keep going until they get to the bottom of things.

If there was one thing I wish I could teach every young person in the world, it would be entrepreneurial thinking. Thinking this way gives you a strong grounding in reality, and prevents you from falling into the traps of just being an self-important intellectual.

God help us when the intellectuals start to brute force their awful ideas onto society, even when it's clear and obvious that they don't work. Oh, wait, they've already been doing this for decades.