reality evoked by the Shavian character who said, “In the last analysis, every profession is a conspiracy against the laity. - Charlie Munger

All I want to know is where I'm going to die so I'll never go there.

You have to learn all the big ideas in the key disciplines in a way that they're in a mental latticework in your head and you automatically use them for the rest of your life. If you do that, I solemnly promise you that one day you'll be walking down the street and you'll look to your right and left and you’ll think "my heavenly days, I'm now one of the few competent people in my whole age cohort." If you don't do it, many of the brightest of you will live in the middle ranks or in the shallows.

Instead, you must do your multidisciplinary thinking in accord with Ben Franklin’s prescription in Poor Richard:52 “If you want it done, go. If not, send.