This may hurt a little.
Any man, no matter who, will respond to a recording of his own voice with “Wait, I really sound like that?” That’s what I felt last week as I heard a smart young student speak in praise of suffering at an ISI lecture, for the slightly embarrassing reason that I’m someone whose advocacy of suffering borders on self-parody, which has made me accustomed to being the most pro-suffering person in any room that doesn’t also include a Fight Club. It was jarring not to be.