Overrated: Intellect
“An intellectual is someone who looks at a pink party balloon and thinks of Jeff Koons”
Underrated: Instinct
If you are instinctive, you think for yourself, and find chance beautiful
Overrated: Apollo
There is a sterile perfection in the prim and prattish god of order
Overrated: Classicism
The default conservative reverence for ancient architecture too easily produces bogus, formulaic buildings
Overrated: Ludwig Wittgenstein
The Austrian philosopher and 20th-century genius disabled others and inspired decades of needless self-destruction among his disciples
Overrated: PhDs
Post-doctoral studies may be a waste of time in the future world of work
Underrated: Dionysus
The orgies and drunken frenzies of the god of wine — immoderate but exhilarating
Underrated: Modernism
The modernist mentality revels in optimism and opportunity
Underrated: Bernard Bolzano
The little-known Bolzano formed remarkably modern conceptions of logical truth and probability
Underrated: Vocational training
Skilled jobs such as carpentry and nursing will be at a premium in an automated world