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Chuck Klosterman: belief

23 Feb 2022 Conversations with Tyler Chuck Klosterman on Writing the Past and Relishing the Present

“I think that, on average, of course, what you’re saying is true, but I wonder how much.”

— Chuck Klosterman

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Chuck Klosterman
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belief
Recorded
23 Feb 2022
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Your kids will have your talents, on average, and the talents of other parents, and that’s good. But it really is “on average.” There are seven kids in my family, and there are strong similarities visually, or our use of our hands when we talk and maybe our fundamental ideas about, oh, money and safety and spirituality and stuff. But skills-wise, it’s pretty disconnected. I think that, on average, of course, what you’re saying is true, but I wonder how much. I have two kids, and I’m shocked by how different they are. It seems like they should be more similar than they are. They have the same parents, they’re having the exact same experience, so I don’t know. It’s interesting. But you compare them to other kids — then they look a lot more similar.…

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