Andrew Potter, a philosophy professor and co-author of Rebel Sell (buy it!), has written something that will make us all feel better about ourselves.
Potter has a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Toronto. He writes for, among other publications, Macleans. He is super bright, but he hasn't read Kant's Critique of Pure Reason or all of Plato’s Republic.
And he wrote the following in his blog today: "The dirty but not-so-secret fact of academic life is that the great majority of us...are bluffers. Not always, but often enough."
That's good news for those of us who don't have a PhD. All we need to learn is how to fake it as well as academics. And maybe read the Coles Notes versions of the books we're supposed to read.