So educate me since I did vvatch the clip because YOU posted it :-.)tkn1114January 7 2011, 10:02:46 UTC
I vvant you to knovv that I normally vvould never give this sort "Charlie Rose" vvaste of time idle talk for people vvho have nothing better to do vvith their time than go to these talks the time of day. But because you posted the clip and give it a thumb up, I listened.
Because you said you liked, I sat there and listened to the vvhole thing (Ok, I skimmed through it after the first 5 minutes vvhen I finally realized vvhat this vvas about :-.D). But I think I got the gist. So I vvant to knovv vvhat you think is so great about this guy and vvhat is it about vvhat he says that you and I don't already knovv? That Capitalization is key to Success? That Genius is useless vvithout Determination? VVhat did I miss that I should remain so flabergastedly unimpressed? :-.0)
RANT The 92 St Y is a venue that hosts some of the most boring talks that pseudo-intellectual junkies flock to hear because they're tired of hearing themselves and the other talk at happy hours so they pay to hear somebody else talk about the same things they're tired of
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Re: So educate me since I did vvatch the clip because YOU posted it :-.)tkn1114January 8 2011, 10:05:26 UTC
I like the way he talks. His sincerity.
There might have been a degree of sincerity. But there's something about this guy that's so typical of this type of person I see all the time in NYC that grates my nerves. Maybe it's his education. They all talk the same vvay about the same thing! Noam Chomsky once said this: "Having a certain American education is going to shape you in a vvay that you cannot escape it. It stains you." :-.D (paraphrasing, of course).
The way he doesn't try to seem smarter than heis, doesn't claim or pretend to know things he doesn't.If you say so. By my 1st impression is that he's full of useless trivia and small talk. He puts forth a lot of generalities and make them sound like researched data/facts (the months of the year drafted hockey players are born??? This is fact?). And then he says "I can never remember vvhat I said before". Then he talks about people knovvingly vvhom he admits he has never met and throvvs out the disclaimer "I've never met him" to cover himself. Do you see vvhat I mean? VVhich of
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Because you said you liked, I sat there and listened to the vvhole thing (Ok, I skimmed through it after the first 5 minutes vvhen I finally realized vvhat this vvas about :-.D). But I think I got the gist. So I vvant to knovv vvhat you think is so great about this guy and vvhat is it about vvhat he says that you and I don't already knovv? That Capitalization is key to Success? That Genius is useless vvithout Determination? VVhat did I miss that I should remain so flabergastedly unimpressed? :-.0)
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There might have been a degree of sincerity. But there's something about this guy that's so typical of this type of person I see all the time in NYC that grates my nerves. Maybe it's his education. They all talk the same vvay about the same thing! Noam Chomsky once said this: "Having a certain American education is going to shape you in a vvay that you cannot escape it. It stains you." :-.D (paraphrasing, of course).
The way he doesn't try to seem smarter than heis, doesn't claim or pretend to know things he doesn't.If you say so. By my 1st impression is that he's full of useless trivia and small talk. He puts forth a lot of generalities and make them sound like researched data/facts (the months of the year drafted hockey players are born??? This is fact?). And then he says "I can never remember vvhat I said before". Then he talks about people knovvingly vvhom he admits he has never met and throvvs out the disclaimer "I've never met him" to cover himself. Do you see vvhat I mean? VVhich of ( ... )
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