Potshots at your namesake, eh?

Varun has the right idea – you are in fact, excellent at what you do. Take a gander at this quote about mentats from one of the Dune novels. In case you’ve forgotten, mentats are human computers who became necessary after humanity wiped out AI and swore never to build machine intelligences. They still needed what computers provided, though, so they have Mentats to do all this stuff. Fascinating characters, Mentats…

Above all else, the mentat must be a generalist, not a specialist. It is wise to
have decisions of great moment monitored by generalists. Experts and specialists
lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit picking, the
ferocious quibble over a comma. The mentat-generalist, on the other hand, should
bring to decision-making a healthy common sense. He must not cut himself off
from the broad sweep of what is happening in his universe. He must remain
capable of saying: “There’s no real mystery about this at the moment. This is
what we want now. It may prove wrong later, but we’ll correct that when we come
to it.” The mentat-generalist must understand that anything which we can
identify as our universe is merely part of larger phenomena. But the expert
looks backward; he looks into the narrow standards of his own specialty. The
generalist looks outward; he looks for living principles, knowing full well that
such principles change, that they develop. It is to the characteristics of
change itself that the mentat-generalist must look. There can be no permanent
catalogue of such change, no handbook or manual. You must look at it with as few
preconceptions as possible, asking yourself: “Now what is this thing doing?”
-The Mentat Handbook

So be happy, your sort of thinking is useful for monitoring ‘decisions of great moment’, which is more than you can say for most people…

Potshots at your namesake, eh?

Varun has the right idea – you are in fact, excellent at what you do. Take a gander at this quote about mentats from one of the Dune novels. In case you’ve forgotten, mentats are human computers who became necessary after humanity wiped out AI and swore never to build machine intelligences. They still needed what computers provided, though, so they have Mentats to do all this stuff. Fascinating characters, Mentats…

Above all else, the mentat must be a generalist, not a specialist. It is wise to
have decisions of great moment monitored by generalists. Experts and specialists
lead you quickly into chaos. They are a source of useless nit picking, the
ferocious quibble over a comma. The mentat-generalist, on the other hand, should
bring to decision-making a healthy common sense. He must not cut himself off
from the broad sweep of what is happening in his universe. He must remain
capable of saying: “There’s no real mystery about this at the moment. This is
what we want now. It may prove wrong later, but we’ll correct that when we come
to it.” The mentat-generalist must understand that anything which we can
identify as our universe is merely part of larger phenomena. But the expert
looks backward; he looks into the narrow standards of his own specialty. The
generalist looks outward; he looks for living principles, knowing full well that
such principles change, that they develop. It is to the characteristics of
change itself that the mentat-generalist must look. There can be no permanent
catalogue of such change, no handbook or manual. You must look at it with as few
preconceptions as possible, asking yourself: “Now what is this thing doing?”
-The Mentat Handbook

So be happy, your sort of thinking is useful for monitoring ‘decisions of great moment’, which is more than you can say for most people…

Anyway, more than half the population(maybe the entire.. in our college) might not be as good as you are, in whatever u are good at(wow!!).

Move on buddy!!

Anyway, more than half the population(maybe the entire.. in our college) might not be as good as you are, in whatever u are good at(wow!!).

Move on buddy!!