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The Big Think Interview
The Big Think Interview

The myth of the cult of genius, in 48 minutes

49 min•10 juli 2026
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A philosopher who walked away from an elite academic career to spend 3 years washing dishes in a monastery says that intellectual life has nothing to do with degrees. 

Zena Hitz argues that the real philosophers are taxi drivers, office clerks, prisoners: Everyday people who exist outside the cult of academia.


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