C. Thi Nguyen

We try them out and we see if they work.

And part of that is the feedback we have

of our happiness and our sorrow, our boredom and our engagement.

And that's how we triangulate on what the right values to have.

And that's how we throw away some values.

And what that looks like is being like, I've been trying to do this job for a while and here are the values of this job.

And it just sucks.

I hate it.

I need to find something different.

Hmm.

Let me now take you to two stories I've been obsessed with.

And I think I'm super excited because this is a connection I've never made before, but here we go.

Okay.

Let me tell you my favorite thing that was cut from the book because people decided it was too gross.

Okay.

So while I was researching this book, I started researching pickup artist culture.

Right?

I mean, because pickup artists are people that compete for sexual success.

And literally, it's called scoring, right?

And there's a really – actually, a bunch of anthropologists and sociologists have studied pickup artists.