Influence...perhaps a better word is guidance.
The wind influences a sailboat, but the rudder controls it.
A person who shuns control is the best teacher of all, imo.
There are a lot of young sailboats out there, and the winds of influence do control them. They just need folks (like you, perfessor) to show them how to use a rudder.
FRegards
Or you, my friend.
There's a little bit of philospher knocking around in you too, I've noticed.
Must be the solitude and quality time for thinking one must have while out kyak'g about, huh. ;^)
I figured you were being "flippant," my friend.
Just making darned sure others understood.
...damned CRTs are awfully one dimensional. {g}