Genius

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information. - Winston Churchill

So this is what Churchill had to say about genius. Well as I stare at my game theory paper and the numbers on matrices that flow around I'm not sure to what extent I've mastered this skill but I'm trying none the less.

According to Howard Davies, one of my favourite professors here at Sciences Po, my history degree helped me on my path towards the genius Churchill talks of. (Well he didn't say that exactly but...) Apparently, it helps you to distinguish the truth from the lies, to battle through the intellectual maze and create something coherent (Ah he knows how to make someone feel better.)

Really though, I'm not talking about being a genius, of course, but when you've got so much information you wonder what you're aiming for. Why, in other words, am I doing this Masters. One thing is to learn  information but another more crucial skill is to learn how to and continue to evaluate "uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information". We have to learn to distil and never has that been more true.