understand by being quiet for a little bit and just observing and listening. So we're big proponents of being introverted listeners and looking at the world and trying to make sense of it and see what makes sense for these people and truly put yourself into their shoes. And the reason why I talk so much about the humanities is that's what you're doing when you're a historian. When you're a historian you want to understand Napoleon or the Duque Windsor. You go into peace together their world through pictures and paintings and objects that you find from the time and notes that people have written down and you try to peace out or create a picture of what that was like to be the Duque Windsor and saying no to the English crown or being Napoleon and losing in Waterloo. What was that like? What was his life like? What was his world like? So piecing it together through a set of different sorts of data not just quantitative but aesthetic, practical, all kinds of objects and situations and (41/57)
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