Hi everybody, this is Gadsad. One of the beautiful things about being an interdisciplinary

researcher is that I can link various concepts and theories and disciplines that heretofore might not have been

thought as relevant to each other.

So a few days ago, I was reading, going through this book,

which I recently bought at a used bookstore in Chicago.

You might remember I gave a lecture at the University of Chicago,

a wonderful event.

So this is the book, Chicago, a wonderful event.

So this is the book, a biography on Ludwig van Mises, one of the OGs of the Austrian School of Economics. And I was lamenting online that, you know, as much as I was excited to read the book, I found it quite difficult to read because, you know,

it's full of very obscure arcane references to all sorts of things

that you would have to go and find out what he's talking about there

in order to fully understand that particular sentence.

And I'm almost finished with

the book, but at one point I thought to myself, well, you know, let's suppose that there is

a hundred things that, you know, if I understood every single word of the book, it would be a hundred.

What if I understood only 40% of the 100? There are two

ways to look at it. Being the maladaptive perfectionist that I am, I need to understand every syllable

of every word. A more forgiving way to look at it would be to say, well, listen, even if I understood or took away

40%, 60%, 80% of what I should take away from this book, that's still a much higher number than

zero, which is not the way my brain works. Because again, I am someone who is a perfectionist.

I want to understand every syllable of every perfectionist I want to understand every syllable

of every word I want to check every syllable every comma of anything that I write and so on

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