This book changed my life. I was 19 when I read it. The portion of the book that really changed me was Pirsig describing his friend. His friend was unable to look at the motorcycle and see the logical organization of systems in it. Because it was a monolith to him, he was unable to understand it. Pirsig noted that this was a pattern in his friend. A leaky faucet in his house, other broken things. Pirsig implied that his inability to understand systems inhibited his ability to interact with the world at a deeper level. This book was the genesis to me breaking into tech two years later at 21 years old. It helped me realize that anything I viewed as complex was worth leaning into. There were systems and patterns I could understand if I was willing to sit in the discomfort. I suppose you could say that this learning also extended to my view of the human body. That studies, and terms I could not initially understand, would be knowable given enough time sitting in the discomfort.