How to live an intellectual life
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When you picture an intellectual, who do you see? Professor Zena Hitz says that somewhere along the way, the idea of what an intellectual is and does became distorted.
"The real thing is something more extraordinary but also more available to us," Hitz adds, differentiating between an intellectual life constantly in pursuit of something else, and one that enjoys ordinary activities like reading and thinking.
An example is young Albert Einstein, who spoke highly of his time working in a patent office and hatching "beautiful ideas" long before becoming a famous physicist.
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When you picture an intellectual, who do you see? Professor Zena Hitz says that somewhere along the way, the idea of what an intellectual is and does became distorted.
"The real thing is something more extraordinary but also more available to us," Hitz adds, differentiating between an intellectual life constantly in pursuit of something else, and one that enjoys ordinary activities like reading and thinking.
An example is young Albert Einstein, who spoke highly of his time working in a patent office and hatching "beautiful ideas" long before becoming a famous physicist.
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Francisco Gimeno - BC Analyst Intelligence varies in each individual and on the other hand every group, society, culture sees the world in many different ways. A bushman in the Kalahari can be an intellectual as good as a German philosopher, because this person lives the intellectual life, knowing there are questions which need answers, looking at the things in a peculiar way, always learning, always in an attitude of surprise and awe in front the Universe and conscience. Always becoming more human.