C. Thi Nguyen
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3,183 appearances
5 recordings
5 series
first heard Jan 2026
last heard 7 Jul
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I think.
Things like climbing, activities like skateboarding, right?
Each of these has its own values that you might not tune into.
And the scoring system is so clear that it helps you tune into them.
So you can use them to find your way into new, beautiful things that you had not experienced before.
But then after a while...
When I'd gotten the kind of brute area, when I was like, oh, I get this now, I was able to fine-tune it to myself.
I was able to tailor it to myself.
I was able to adjust what I was trying to do to make it better for me.
And I think one way to put it is that I think scoring systems and metrics are kind of off-the-rack values.
But that's useful to have, right?
But it's also useful to use as a starting point and depart from.
And I think...
Being able to learn from them, use their rigidity to get onto something, and then being able to depart from them and adjust them is a really valuable way to do it.
And I think what's interesting about my climbing example was the original scoring system was very external, this external difficulty score, but I needed that to be able to get onto it because I didn't have the value inside me.
And once I did, I could kind of go off book
and start aiming at something much subtler and more internal.
I could guide myself with my own sense of elegance, but it took years of following the scoring system to get to be able to do that.
So I think there's so many things I want to talk about.
So the first thing is, is this such a clear glimpse of what...
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