Intellectual, Nurture, Connect

Is it nature or nurture that makes an intellectual? Perhaps a humble poet is not the one to say for SUTreeee —— _ But what is sure is that to be an intellectual, = one must be adept at connecting-- ; = connecting ideas, connecting images, connecting neurons & synapses in the brainse. But the aspect of being an intellectual that is, =a perhaps, lesser known, but no less a matter of genius is the ability to connect things outside of oneself, to bring people together at the right time & the right place...to do this so well,. orchestrate outcomes so deftly,, that onlookers ee call it coincidence...eor lucke