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Just to keep things interesting I know one of the best degreed race engineers in the business who was recently searching for college engineering graduates to hire. He interviewed and interviewed and came up with the conclusion that 90% of the college engineering graduates had good book smarts but only about 10% of them had the common sense necessary to apply that book smarts properly. Moral of the story is that if you have common sense you can make a place for yourself anywhere.
The problem is that most people trying to fix any problem or trying to come up with a better solution don't go far enough to find the root cause but end up putting a bandaid fix on the problem. Smokey Yunick's great success was due partly to his refusal to accept anyone else's conclusion as to what a rule should be either in engineering or the race governing body's rule book. Remember that Smokey was not a graduate engineer but was a very staunch supporter of education. You can never have too much education to go along with your common sense and should never stop challenging your brain.
There is an old saying " Its' not what you know that counts but what you do with what you know that counts."
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