EconTalk podcasts are consistently some of the most nourishing content on the internet. Thank you Russ.

When Prof. Hitz mentioned David Graeber's book (43:06) it reminded me of Nassim Taleb's Antifragile.

What an interesting deep going discussion about contemplative learning and not just shredding superficial knowledge into ones own brain, where it is often more an obstacle than an uplifting insight with no insight, hence it was never digested, never made to oneself. Learning without incorporating the learned, without making it part of oneself is poor learning, hence the fun thing of interconnecting content with older content by in weaving it into the own fabric of personal associations is sadly missed, so it stays an abstract and unrelated thing with no real name. Reading books deeply means in the end, as if oneself had written the book, it became part of oneself, written by others but through associative contemplation its now part of oneself. Contemporary "intellectuals" are, what tragedy, often more warriors of words but fountains of meaning and wisdom, you two Zena Hitz and Russ luckily are not. Wisdom with ground contact is today more frequent with normal people than with ideologically trained "scientists" living in their bubble, another tragedy. Too bad, people like you Ross don't get the credit deserved with lots of subscribers, which is probably more a compliment these days. Quality is understood rarely.

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Well said

It s such a deep discussion my most common words of english cant give it a description of it s wholesome meaning , a third way and am so illuminated yet so lost on my inner thinking.