Let me just say that any day in my professional and intellectual life that I interact with someone showing "innate interest" in topics at hand and a healthy amo

Let me just say that any day in my professional and intellectual life that I interact with someone showing "innate interest" in topics at hand and a healthy amount of "refusal to give up", is a good day for me. If you're looking for some honest, profound, and witty reading in terms of intellectual self-doubt and brilliance, skim through _I've Been Thinking_, the excellent biography of the recently deceased philosopher, Daniel C Dennett.