![]() ![]() It may not be a concrete way, but first you ask: was the person there? If it's a biography, did the author personally know the subject of the biography? That becomes an extremely important question. So I'm curious, how does travelling a lot change your perspective when you read a work of history? In what ways does it do so? Are you skeptical of it to an extent that you weren't before, and what do you think historians are probably getting wrong? So it's like Travel versus History, and the historians lose. If you’ve travelled appropriately in contemporary times, it should make you more skeptical about history because you'll realize how little you can learn about the current places just by reading about them. Not at all! I think we understand the past very very poorly. So do you think the experience of reading a history book is somewhat substitutable for actually travelling to a place? Older people were there in a sense, but if you go back to ancient Athens, or the peak of the Roman Empire, you’d be the first traveller. You need to be protected against disease and have some access to the languages, and obviously, your smartphone is not going to work, right? So if you adjust for those differences, I think it would be a lot like travelling today except there'd be bigger surprises because no one else has gone to the past. So in terms of novelty and wonder, do you think travelling to the past would be a fundamentally different experience from travelling to different countries today? Or is it kind of in the same category? ![]() I'll get into talent in just a second, but I've got a few questions for you first. Today, it is my great pleasure to speak to Tyler Cowen about his new book, “Talent, How to Find Energizers, Creatives, and Winners Across the World.” Tyler, welcome (once again) to The Lunar Society. I like the free podcast talk often better than the podcast. Yeah, you can put this in the podcast if you want. What do you think happened? Why did it transition together?” I don't think he had a good answer to that. I asked him, “okay, at some point, these were ideas in colleges, but now they’re in the broader world. He thinks that education doesn't teach them anything therefore, that woke-ism can’t be a result of colleges. It once did, even though it doesn't now, and if it doesn't now, it may teach them bad things. So then why is it making you want a free market? Bryan doesn't think education really teaches you much. It no longer seems to be true, but it was true from the data Bryan took from. In The Myth of the Rational Voter, education is so wonderful. ![]() Garrett Jones has tweeted about this in the past. In which ways are they not consistent? That's a kind of friendly jab. ![]()
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