The Most Meaningful Compliments You Ever Received
What are the most meaningful compliments you ever received? Here’s my short list:
1. When Robin Hanson told me that I’m his “favorite person to talk to.”
2. When Thomas Szasz wrote me that this paper “gave me more pleasure than you can imagine.”
3. When Donald Wittman wrote that:
A common complaint by authors is that their reviewers have misinterpreted what the author has said. This is not my complaint here, because Bryan Caplan has explained my position better than I have.
4. When Philip Tetlock wrote me that “this is the smartest review of my book I’ve yet seen.”
5. When Pete Boettke named me as a candidate to be the next Julian Simon.
How about you?
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I was in a debate class at my college that was already very leftist in the early 1980s (Bowdoin College). It was the end of the class during which I was the lone voice defending classical liberalism. A bunch of left-leaning students were clustered around the left-leaning professor as I was walking out. The professor turned to the students and said (as she pointed at me): "You think you're radical. You're not radical. HE's the radical."
Always amazing how utterly conventional thinkers don't realize that they are like fish that don't know they are wet.
When my sons, now in their early 20's, occasionally quote back to me some piece of minor wisdom that I've offered them, not in a mocking or playful way, but indicating that they think of it and it informs their decisions...well, that makes me feel amazing.