Brendan O'Connor
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You know what I mean?
Just going back to Jung, one of his big ideas is that the greatest achievement is completely knowing yourself.
Yeah.
And I'm kind of going, well, I don't know about that, Jung.
Of something that liberalism allowed to happen, yes.
Do we ever completely know ourselves?
I don't know.
Do you ever completely know yourselves?
I think there's so much of you that's like what Strout was saying is mystery.
I find myself, there's a mystery in all of us.
We don't fully know ourselves.
And so sometimes language doesn't allow us to articulate whatever that feeling is.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's just for me.
I wonder too, going back to the pandemic, the pandemic is, again, probably not a cause here.
Just for me.
And I know you got a whole book out of it very early on.
Again, you know, I trained in systems theory.
Right.
Was that an accelerant of all this as well?