You clearly have the drive and the creativity to perform magic. That's important.

[She taps her temple, clearly exasperated with him, but patient enough...or willing enough to talk smack at him...to explain.]

In order to affect the world around us, we need to understand the world. What the academics are doing are simply taking what you exercise from your gut and explaining it in words.

[She points at him.]

Which makes you...an instinctive nerd.