Imagine you have a ten-ply thinker who has navigated the idea maze for a decade.

If everyone is compelled to listen to what they say and act on it, people will have a hard time grabbing on and get frustrated.

But if you make it so that person is a sage, a professor who offers high-level insights that others can choose to build on or ignore for now, then people don't feel as stressed when they don't get it immediately, and can absorb the insight in their own time.