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What Every Girl Needs
To the naive mind…it may seem absurd that…adaptation to the unknown can be achieved more effectively by decentralizing decisions.
— F. A. Hayek
When college students take their first class in abnormal psychology, they are often struck with temporary insanity.
The underlying insanity is the introspection that leads to diagnosis of the self with every neurosis and psychosis they learn about. Are you paranoid, or do you simply have a healthy respect for Murphy’s Law? If you are cheerful one day and depressed the next, is it the breakup with the girlfriend or bipolar disorder? In the end, the student usually concludes he’s normal, which is perhaps the least likely diagnosis of all.
Liu Fan Hui, Number Two of the Standing Committee, had spent the last two years stu
