 Okay. Let's go to Debbie. Debbie's next. You know, the screen flips on me, so I need the order might change. Sorry. We'll go to Debbie, Ori, and Zachary, and Jonathan. So that'll be the order. Debbie. Okay, so from nihilism and self destructive parasites to something a little more positive. I'm really interested in the way that objectivism improves people's performance in relation to knowledge work. I mean, cognitive performance. I cannot. I can't even compare how I was before I discovered objectivism and how I handled intellectual tasks and knowledge work and so many different ways to before versus after and one thing that's been bringing it to my attention lately is that I've been noticing it more for some reason lately in my interactions with people at work and specific and people on my team but also people I interact with and I really want to at least coach the people who are report to me who I manage on how to utilize some of those tools, not even just for the purpose primarily of spreading objectivism but just even for the purpose of my team performing better. So it's just something I've been thinking more about lately. And I guess my question for you, your own is just I'm curious to hear your thoughts on that and some maybe specific examples where it's really stood out in your mind how does it help you to perform in that way in your life. Yeah, no that's a that's a great that's a great question and a hard one because it's a lot of what we do. A lot of the way objective is an impact us particularly in how we think is is implicit that is we learn the principle but then we apply them, not always consciously not always in the in a systematic we don't sit down and say okay, today, I'm going to learn how to integrate. We know that integration is important so we try to integrate constantly and we turn it into a habit and it happens starts happening automatically, and we don't even realize it and we become. I think one of the things that I'm good at and that it allows me to do a show like this for example, and that I've noticed differentiates me from other people is that I, I don't think of myself as knowing a lot. I'm well connected. I can access it in ways that amazes other people because I've spent a lot of time integrating things and seeing connections between them, and being interested in a lot of different things so I'm not deep on any one thing. It's that way because I can almost always connect it to something else and show, make it real to people. Yeah, teachers do right. We're very good at making it real to people, because we're not going, you know, to more abstract levels we're going wide and concrete. I think that's unique. I think that's unique to objectivist that ability. Well, not unique. I think good, all good thinkers do that. But I think objectivists are more likely to do it because we're actually encouraged to do that by Leonard and by buying. So it's part of the philosophy. So I think a big part of it is integration seeing connection between things. So many people seem to be compartmentalized, even in work. Assignment A and assignment B and obviously related because the same company and they have to be related and they have to be connected. And they can't see or they or when you point them out maybe they can see but they don't think in terms of connectivity. They think, okay now I'm doing a and then I'm doing B and, and they can't so they never get the big picture. They can't think big picture and they can't, they can't project the value of their work on a, which is the motivating for them. It's not motivating for them. Emphasizing this idea of integration, things are connected. And, and there's a purpose to what we're doing, right? And if there's a purpose to what we're doing, if you've got assignment and assignment B, there has to be a relationship and you're not sure what their relationship is. Ask. Let's sit down for five minutes and talk about what the relationship is. So encourage them to be more, ask more questions because they're not going to get it early. But to see connections between things, between things that they're doing, or things that somebody else is doing, maybe somebody else in the team is doing something that looks like they're doing something completely different. Why are they doing that? To show them that this is all related, that this is all connected, that this is all one. So I think that's one level. The other is concretize everything. I don't know how this applies to work. You'd have to think about this, but, but, you know, a friend of mine asked me to review something he'd written. And he's really smart, off the chart smart, not objective, but, but very free market and he wrote something for publication and he said, could you look at this and, and he had the same mistake that a lot of objectives have when they do when they write early. And that is, it was all floating. It completely understandable in his own mind, but completely detached from the fact of reality and the context of the reader. And I said, examples, just give examples, just concretize, make it real. Make it real. Don't, don't stay at this level bring it down, right, bring it down to a level that any reader can understand what you're talking about. And I think, objectives over time, you know, there's the tendency of being rationalistic in objectivism. So some people never make that transition in objectivism, but good thinkers in objectivism, a very good at tying their abstract ideas to reality to actually concrete actions that actually happen. And I think I'd have to think about it more. You can, you can teach that that is true in a, in a world context as well. Right. Your assignment is here but what does it actually mean in terms of concrete. Definitely. Yeah, I can, I can tell you exactly how that applies to my work. I won't because I don't want to bore you guys. Can I throw out two more principles? Sure. One, a belief in an objective truth, which seems obvious, the idea that that some principle applies universally, but that's being questioned everywhere and more and more I hear in the business world, people talking about your truth and stuff like that. And the second principle is a belief that all problems can be solved or at least that all things that are, are all pieces of information that are out there are potentially available to us if we just look for it if we have the right tools and whatever just a belief that problems are solvable. I don't think everyone believes that. No, no, there's things that are very, very doable and it's just like, I propose it and what we can't do that. Yeah, we can actually I'll tell you how. Every solution is affordable but It may not have a good ROI but we can do it. Part of that is context people don't understand both of the issue of truth and in the issue of what's doable is the issue of context. You know, context is important what you would you know versus what your employees know the difference. The context is significant and people don't appreciate that they, you know, there's a tendency today particularly among young people to think they know everything. To think that there's no such thing I mean we see that today there's no such thing as expertise. There's no such thing as specialization. There's no such thing as somebody knowing more than you if you. The media encourages this right. If you can put together a 144 character tweet you know a topic right. And there is really this this idea of expertise knowledge truth context that is just absent today because if you don't believe in truth it goes back to the idea of truth, you don't believe in truth. Knowledge is impossible and or whatever whatever you come up with this knowledge and there's no objective reality there's no measure by which you measure your, your truth versus somebody else's truth so all of that both metaphysically anapistemologically is is crucial but it's a lot. It's a lot you have to break it down for them and see also when certain things come up, right, and then try to point them you can't talk to them in terms of philosophy just point out to them the the error that they're making in terms of in terms of the reality of it. Make sense. Yeah, and I do try to do that, but I want to I'm thinking about maybe some project to put it all together into some sort of comprehensive. I think it works. I say something like integration integration and you know look something like truth is, I mean, you should fire anybody who doesn't believe in truth because if they don't believe in truth and they're going to lie. They're going to make stuff up. They can't do their job. Right. So implicitly in everything they do with it with a believe it explicitly or not is the assumption of truth, and that might be worthwhile pointing out, but there's not much to do if you don't believe in truth. There's the door because you know we deal in facts at this business right. And then it's a question of it's a question of this is how this is how we want you to think and what I would do is I take the principle and objectives to terminology, simplify them, which is not necessarily easy but and then find a way to apply them to work integration and reduction are the two, you know, primary, you know, I principles in epistemology in terms of methodology, you integrate and you and you reduce to concrete. And I to bring to reality I think those are the probably two most important things in terms of thinking skills, which people don't have that because they've never been taught either one of those. Yeah, right. Okay. Thank you. Good. I think next was only what we need today. 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