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I love this. It reminds me of a quote I love from Donald Rumsfeld during the GW Bush days:

"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know. And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tend to be the difficult ones."

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Totally! I'm sure that he is referring to this model in his explanation. Such a good quote.

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Hi Chris, I haven't checked out the reference material, but afraid this post was a bit beyond my powers of comprehension! My mom told me when I was a kid that "the biggest room in the world is the room for improvement" but I suspect the biggest room is the one containing things I don't know I don't know, and I'll chuck this post into that messy room and forget about it, hope you don't mind :)

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Haha, Carlos, I love this line! Hit me up if I can be helpful in your journey. Sometimes things make sense in my mind when I'm thinking of them or writing about them, and then they don't always translate to readers . . . I have plenty of room for improvement, there. :)

Thanks for this reply!

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