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Published · transcript-backedTyler Cowen: belief
24 Aug 2022 Conversations with Tyler Cynthia L. Haven on René Girard, Czeslaw Milosz, and Joseph Brodsky
“If we think of your own career — you’re, at age 17, a reporter, and now you’re writing books about continental philosophy.”
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- Tyler Cowen
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- 24 Aug 2022
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…“What’s bred in the bone will out in the flesh.” Yes, he never gave it up, not entirely. I think it became a smaller portion of his psyche. If we think of your own career — you’re, at age 17, a reporter, and now you’re writing books about continental philosophy. How did that happen? And was that bred in your bone, so to speak? Yes, very much so. I began at 17 as a reporter, actually at 16. It teaches you a lot of things. It teaches you to perform on deadline. It teaches you not to object to your work getting edited, which is a problem with a lot of authors. It teaches you to be flexible. It teaches you how to ask questions. It teaches you how to do interviews. Lots of good skills there.…
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