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I also spoke to people as if they were computers, and if they got upset, I decided that’s their own fault for not being able to manage their emotions.
My father was a science professor and instilled in me from a very young age the idea that intelligence, especially as revealed through academic success, is all that matters.
Darwin had a “thinking path” that he would walk down to ruminate, and Nietzsche is said to have strolled around in nature for hours and hours on end to make sense of his ideas.