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taste is a function of curiosity, a person who allows their curiosity to direct their behaviour is a nerd wrote a book about this https://t.co/Fqd2pX1wwE
I also have a slightly more precise definition of ambition https://t.co/kJIkqN1pRu
Ha, Stephen arrives at the third missing variable in the original tweet: social skills. A great artist can be described as an ambitious nerd, but ambitious nerds languish in obscurity without the skills of interfacing well with social reality to win, be a friendly ambitious nerd https://t.co/yBLH04aVAP
@visakanv Hmm for the usual definition of ambition (power, prestige) this makes sense as they’d select against one another I think. Ambition requiring keeping your eye on the ball and curiosity looking at all the lovely shiny balls