[russellendicott]

I find this to be true. I find that while I work with people who are perfectly capable of becoming experts in a given category, they protect their brains from having to hold unnecessary information that isn't relevant to their current course. This is a very important survival tactic in our field as one can get easily distracted.

I can count on one hand the number of people I could walk up to in a hallway with a random article and geek out for 3hrs--like a mental foodie. A rare profile indeed.