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We're here to talk about really our new catechism, Rebecca, life in three dimensions by one professor, Shigeru, Oishi, Ph.D.

4,000 weeks by Oliver Berkman was our maybe like conversion text.

And when we start our cult, this will be one of our foundational reads.

So I was going to ask you, and maybe this is recency bias.

But I don't really feel like I've ever identified with a book as much as one of these pops.

It's not pop psychology because it's real research.

It was written for a general audience.

Yes.

But this is real psychology that is deeply researched.

Yes.

And it's not a problem solving thing.

It's not like how to win friends and influence people or, you know, negotiate. It also isn't,

it doesn't solve a problem because I'm not like looking, but just in terms of like, yes, I get this.

This makes so much sense to me. This gives me language and categories and structure for thinking

about things I've felt that I didn't have good taxonomy for.

And if you don't have a good taxonomy for something, it makes it increasingly difficult to talk about.

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