mikemosconi said:

Perhaps his position play was good enough to rarely face that situation of being 7 feet from the OB and straight and then having to draw back 7- 9 feet? Do you suppose? A top pro rarely faces super power stroke needs- end of story!

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Pool players marvel at the 6x12 snooker tables. I never considered them to be big. I learned that most of the play was on about a third of the table, the red balls, the black ball, occasionally a pink or blue to get back in line. It didn't take long to learn the playing area was usually small then finish by running a drill with the balls mostly in set spots. I found the snooker table to be more similar to a bar table than a nine footer.

I was laid up a few months years ago and watched video of the pro's make a lot of monster draw shots when follow shots would have worked better. Bring the cue ball to the next spot with one rail or four?

Hu

Chris said:

To paraphrase Aristotle:

Intelligence × knowledge (i.e., education) = insightfulness.
Insightfulness × experience = wisdom.

Personally, I've never encountered a dumb wise person, an uneducated wise person, or a young wise person. OTOH, I have encountered plenty of intelligent uneducated folks, educated folks who aren't terribly intelligent, and old folks who don't really understand much about the world or how it works.

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Chris,

I had a business near LSU Baton Rouge. Huge campus and staff. One of my university professor customers replaced the new spare tire in his trunk because it was two years old. Many more weird things. I had to fire a man I liked. When working alone he was changing out the air in customer's tires that were on the ground so the car rode better, old air got lumpy! A customer told me to thank him then I confirmed it with several other customers. Tony did his best to talk me into doing it, the customers loved it! He wouldn't stop. He was making a day's pay from a handful of air changes a day!

Living in rural and suburban areas I can say that I have known many wise people that weren't educated. Maybe the wisest man I ever knew had a second to third grade formal education. Aside from his day to day wisdom about people, he knew how to farm and handle livestock. After a person reached undergraduate level in one of the huge nearby universities he taught them how to farm and handle livestock on the lab farm! His boss had a doctorate and didn't have walking around sense.

I watched a high level genius grow up. At six or seven he was very wise about some things, some not so much!

One of my hobbies when very young was reading very old books. I had read everything in the school library and nearby public libraries so I started reading everything I could get my hands on including science and medical books over a hundred years old. That was the education that people got in that day, along with some interesting "history!"

Much educational material is inaccurate and I am sure much being taught today is equally wrong. Remember that Galileo was forced to admit the sun circled around the earth on penalty of death if he didn't!

One or two hundred years from now much of what we are taught today will be proven wrong and things we scoff at will prove to have some merit.

We had a globe of the moon in my early science classes. It had a big pie slice of smooth plastic in one place. Man had never seen that slice of the moon! Some saw this globe and thought the moon had a huge smooth area.

I partnered with a man who had over eighty patents. One reason he had so many was that he would chase something to a dead end then forget about it and move on. Well educated, he had a PhD, intelligent, and wise! We met on a project I ran the mechanical end of. I ran the test lab, CAD equipment, and communications with outside shops from coast to coast. I also did early 3D modeling. Just wireframe but if something didn't fit together in a wireframe drawing it wasn't fitting together in the real world either!

Hu