Let me tell you a little secret about how you learn things. You can formulate the best question in the world for an expert, and you get a canned answer. He is diplomatic about it. He won’t tell you that you are just wrong and why you are not only wrong, you are being asinine and he has heard that crap a thousand times.
But if you make a flat statement which is totally undiplomatic and kicks him in the teeth, he unloads on you, he tells you everything you want to hear. He drops all the facts on you, he tells you you are just plain wrong. He tries to make a fool of you.
I am a professional village idiot. I get embarrassed a LOT. But I get everything the experts have to offer, and I get it fast, and I get it blunt. And when I have to face a hostile audience and I have to be able to make flat statements, I am a weapon loaded by experts.
That takes the kind of moral courage most people simply do not have.
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