Alex O'Connor

And like they started doing quite well relative for the time.

And I think there was also this feeling of like, if I'm going to be on the internet talking about, you know, God and religion and debating people and stuff, I better prove that I know what I'm talking about.

It feels a bit weird to be doing that and then like failing school.

And so I kind of knew that I could do it.

I thought that it might be useful.

And so I just sort of decided to give it another go.

And it was very much a case of being like, yeah, see, I can do this.

I just didn't want to before.

And I kind of regret that I didn't.

But then having said that, if I'd have done further maths and physics,

Who knows what I'd be doing now?

And I'd still be interested in philosophy, but I think that it was definitely a good thing that it went the other way.

I think it's really rare to know what you want to do at any age, essentially.

A lot of people fall into what they do, but certainly at that age.

And I think that you kind of have to either take a guess and realize that you can always change your mind or you can do it later.

You're going to be good at something.

There's going to be something you're good at.

And it might be something which isn't traditionally recognized as a form of intelligence, but

Intelligence is a difficult thing to define, but it's probably something like the ability to perform particular tasks.

It's the ability to perform tasks with a particular goal in mind.