Two intellectual titans right there.
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And benzos
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Iām in search of a guru. Any recommendations? errrr
He was never very smart and still isnāt. Mediocre psychology prof doing uninteresting work in an uninteresting area (personality psychology).
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He is not that smart in my uneducated opinion. He went off the deep end over pronouns. We are all going to end up in gulags if we donāt use the correct pronoun. Clean up your room, get your life in order!
This just quickly devolves into semantics about what āsmartā means. I think you can be a professor at a rly prestigious university and not be smart.
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I read his employment history as wrote a good thesis, had good contacts, but got denied tenure at Harvard because he wasnāt up to snuff. He presents well. UofT is an easy fallback for a Canadian denied tenure at a top 10 US university (affirmative action for Canadians). I have an ex gf (Canadian) whoās a tenured prof at UT. Sheās solid, phd from Cornell and a few years at Univ Virginia. Also, I spent 5+years adjacent to top psychology profs and programs (doing cognitive science), no one ever mentioned personality psychology or Jung. Just wasnāt regarded as a real thing. (Granted, I was focused on brain stuff.)
Lol heās a ātake control of your life via personal responsibilityā MRA POS who almost died of drug addiction and learned nothing. Fuck that guy.
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I mean this is the simple, correct take.
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Professors who get denied tenure at Harvard often then immediately get hired as tenured associate professors at second tier but major research institutions like University of Texas, University of Michigan, etc. In science anyway, canāt really speak for psychology. I assume U of T is similarly prestigious.
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Harvardās history department was known for not giving anyone tenure for like 20 years. Itās a strange university generally. They have many great profs obviously and can make major lateral hires at will, but many of its departments are not seen as top tier or cutting edge. It gets the best of the prior generation.
guys, we mustnāt place the underprivileged with jobs in the guru sector of the economy
Sounds like someone hasnāt been cleaning their room.
Yeah, old JP himself.
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You must be mistaken. I have never heard tell of an academic with abstract ideas in a narrow field of practice that do not work well in the real world when broadly applied. Thatās just crazy talk.
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This rings true to me. I went to grad school at U of T for math and a) it is a very strong school and b) 90%+ of my professors were Ivy League PhD holders who did a fellowship at some place like an Ivy League school or a European equivalent. U of T is definitely a landing spot for Ivy League B-teamers that couldnāt get a tenure position at say Harvard, although all the people I met were indeed very strong on their areas of expertise. They were a very poorly adjusted group of personalities though. About half of them would be unable to hold a full time job in a regular workplace, and of those half I can only think of one or two with the interpersonal skills to actually be successful in a real job.
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Thereās only one kind of smart. Thatās why none of us have ever met a person that is good at one thing but bad at another thing.
I finally listened to this, it was terrific. Never listened to the show before, Iāll try a couple more. Thanks.
Tbf, you were in math, where non functionality is probably most common of all disciplines. I do think UT is a great university, but itās also massive and somewhat favors Canadian hires (which is fine imo).