

Hi Mr. Hopkins,
The article is a brilliant and gripping read, and judging by the number of recommends it has got, it sure is appealing to the target audience. The whole article combines two of the most famous ‘characteristics’ of the ‘nerd life, ‘Friends’ Sitcom and the feeling of being bullied, misunderstood & the apparent…
Hi Mr. David Hopkins,
Very nicely written. I could never have thought of this angle to such a famous sitcom. If I be allowed to slightly deviate from your take on this and also from the one by Mukilan Pannirselvam in the comments to this post, I’d like to point out a few things that have kind of been in my head for a long…
Does the will have to play a role here? I think that the will is always based upon an underlying desire that urges for realization. In my observation of children, the majority has a mediocre willpower, and only the leader natures have strong or *iron* willpower. I have also observed that the new generations, those who are in Kindergarten right now…
I have been thinking about this exact point. When I was a kid, I went through a short(200 pages or so) sci-fi read every week. I read all of them before the publisher could publish more of that series, so I went to another series and another. I read many non-fiction books and tried things out to cement the learning.
Nice to see that there’s so much support for anti-anti-intellectualism, even if it is preaching to the choir on Medium! It’s been a rough ride in the racist backlash against Obama. Thank you for your thoughtful, well constructed piece.