"The Know It All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World" is mesmerizingly uniformative. But this is hardly surprising, because the premise of the book is completely wrong. The animating idea of this misguided endeavor is that corralling a vast array of unrelated facts will, in and of itself, make a person more interesting. This is idiotic. Facts absorbed without context merely magnify the intellectual deficiencies of the autodidact, because a poorly educated person does not know which facts are important.
Brand New Worlds Begins
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