> "those intelligent and driven enough to devote their life to producing original research." you've heard of engineers, doctors and lawyers, right? lots of fol

> "those intelligent and driven enough to devote their life to producing original research." you've heard of engineers, doctors and lawyers, right? lots of folks go to college to, in part, prepare to work in those fields. they may never do "original research" but can be quite intelligent and driven. I'm going to make a guess that you might be grad student or are otherwise on the academic/professor career path, if you said something like that. Because there are a lot of people who don't go down that path and actually have a uncomplimentary view of it, pretty much the inverse of what you said. i won't repeat the stereotypes here but they exist.