"I have always believed that scientific research is another domain where a form of optimism is essential to success: I have yet to meet a successful scientist who lacks the ability to exaggerate the importance of what he or she is doing, and I believe that someone who lacks a delusional sense of significance will wilt in the face of repeated experiences of multiple small failures and rare successes, the fate of most researchers." - Daniel Kahneman, Thinking Fast and Slow (Penguin: 2012)Is the statement still true if you cross out "scientist" and write in "biblical scholar"?
Friday, March 16, 2018
On Delusional Optimism
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Ah, the frustration of the theological student--navigating through a variety of professors who all profess their field to be the most essential!
I think that is very interesting
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