Really though, academia is horribly infected with Great Man Theory. It socializes you in such a way that you inevitably compare yourself to fictionalized versions of Einstein or Turing or Leaky or Heidegger or whoever else. Since the measuring stick you’re using isn’t real, you’ll never measure up.

Unless you’re comparing yourself to Heidegger since, if you aren’t a Nazi, you already have a big leg up.