This is a wonderful insight. I had a few jobs and had been through college before I realized just how superficial my knowledge (and really most people's knowled

This is a wonderful insight. I had a few jobs and had been through college before I realized just how superficial my knowledge (and really most people's knowledge) was on most subjects. Really specializing in any subject would take years of intense work. I had made it to my late 20s before ever undertaking anything like that, and it began to dawn on me that many intelligent people could get through their whole life without ever really dealing with complexity. It was at this point that I realized what Plato's Allegory of the Cave was really about; the apparent complexity of the world and the actual complexity of the world diverge strongly.