There is perhaps no greater means of increasing returns across all other domains than the discerning acquisition of an intellectual framework for doing so. Indeed, short of this pursuit would no other prove fruitful or even possible. Mere tutelage, however, belies a certain autodidactic necessity for which no amount of instruction could prove a substitute. Yet in any facet of study, what will always prove indispensable is a concerted engagement with the material at hand–an active study by which to re-frame one’s thinking, or and integrated and nontrivial faculty of one’s intellect.