To be able to do a 3hr interview without neuroticism requires stamina that you can only learn by having become very good at something with practice. When you look at journalists who can't do that without centering the conversation back on themselves or using confrontation, it's pretty clear that competence in a physical discipline makes the difference.
Interesting comparison to journalists though. Who would be a peer as an interviewer? Maybe George Plimpton, Christine Amanpour, Oprah Winfrey, Charlie Rose, or Dominick Dunne?
Personally, I respect physical competence, techne over episteme, experiment over theory, performance over criticism, predictive power over post-hoc explanation, etc. It's more of an orientation than an idolatry.
Interesting comparison to journalists though. Who would be a peer as an interviewer? Maybe George Plimpton, Christine Amanpour, Oprah Winfrey, Charlie Rose, or Dominick Dunne?
Personally, I respect physical competence, techne over episteme, experiment over theory, performance over criticism, predictive power over post-hoc explanation, etc. It's more of an orientation than an idolatry.