347: The Ultimate Stalemate, Emotionally (w/ Mark Watson!)
Dear Hank & John
Do You Really Know How to Answer This Question?
Hank and Mark: How do I seem like I'm following someone and understand what they're saying even when I don't? Hank says he spent a lot of his academic career basically doing what Annabelle is describing, appearing to be keeping up with the conversation. "I think most of my academic career inadvertently or not taught me that being able to simulate understanding and knowledge is the same as actually having it" 'The human experience is massive and complicated,' writes Hank on this week's podcast. "'You cannot be across more than 1% of everything that's happening' - so just be cool with that," adds Mark.
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