“I am too cool to be a professor, I am too cool to be a professor.”

From The James Bond Lifestyle Seminar for Academics©--

As everyone knows, James Bond is cool; most professors are not. They are the opposite of cool. That’s why no one listens to them.

Most professors don’t know how to dress themselves. They are rarely seen with beautiful people. They usually drive ugly cars. And most of them don’t even know how to tip properly. Let’s face it, pal. If you’re an academic, you are probably a nerd, a geek, a loser, or, as Sinatra—the arbiter of all things cool—used to call such people, a “Clyde.”

But that’s probably why you became a professor in the first place, instead of, say, a military test pilot, an A-list actor, or president of the United States. You stayed in school, and you never learned the rules of cool. That’s why you don’t have a license to kill.

And that’s why you need the James Bond Lifestyle Seminar for Professors©. You need to be a “Dr. Yes” instead of a “Dr. No.”

You can read the entire useful article, Clyde, on Chronicle.com.