Tyler Cowen: belief

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…No. It’s brilliant. It’s really, really fun. Obviously, they are subjected to my books, so they’re assigned my books to read, they have no choice. And one of them, when they were reading my last book, The Promises of Giants, they were like, “Oh, I didn’t know you played sport.” But it was just like that. They had no concept of, even though I’m sure they must’ve known what the NBA is, they’re just like, “Oh, I didn’t know you played some sport.” I was like, “Yeah, I played some sport.” And even now, I’ve got clients, commercial clients, no idea, no idea at all. Especially in Europe and the UK, just no idea at all that I played. I find it gratifying, actually. I knew you played, in fact, I saw you, I think one time Orlando came to play in Washington D. C., if my memory serves correctly. Oh, boy. One of my early memorable games happened against Washington in Washington, D.C. I scored 12 points in the third and fourth quarter, and we beat Washington coming off the bench. And it was one of the first games and I was like, “Oh, shit, I might be quite good at this.” Yeah.…

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