> The people who drop out of PhD programs usually are plenty smart enough, they just don't know how to make things happen. Generalizations like this aren't use

> The people who drop out of PhD programs usually are plenty smart enough, they just don't know how to make things happen. Generalizations like this aren't useful. I could just as easily say "The people who finish PhD programs are plenty smart, they just don't understand the sunk costs fallacy." I dropped out to make things happen. I took a job where I learned and developed myself more than I did as a student.