In 2021, David Card won the Nobel Prize for his work in Economics. The Fence Magazine gathered a number of these laureates together and asked them what they don’t understand about their own profession; in Card’s case, what he didn’t understand about his own discipline of economics:

I find it very hard to understand whether people stay on their current job because they are uninformed (or misinformed) about other jobs, or because their current job is the best of all possible jobs, or because they are just too tired (or scared) to look for something else.

David Card
UC Berkley Professor
Nobel Prize Laureate, Economic Sciences, 2021

It’s astonishing to a Nobel Prize-winning economist that people aren’t consistently looking for new jobs and to periodically better their situations — and has no idea why they don’t.

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Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me.

Frank Herbert
Dune