John Amaechi: belief

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…And your decision to become a professor at Exeter or just to become a professor more generally, what led you to want to do exactly that? Credibility. Credibility. I think there is just a part of it. You mentioned before, the monster kind of analogy. I do everything I can to help people see that I have something to offer them in this new context, and being a professor is part of that. Teaching students who know more than you. And I know lots of people say that and think it’s bollocks, but it’s not. They are closer to the data, graduate students are closer to the science than I am. I often get informed by them newest things that are happening. My value entirely to graduate students is, “How do you apply what you now know theoretically to this pragmatic ever-changing world to the practicalities of all of these different businesses?” And that’s my value to them. So yeah, it’s credibility and it’s joy. Do many of your students know who you are?…

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