Avi Loeb

And I'm not afraid of not being liked because...

you know, there is a bigger reward at the end, which is let's figure out something really fundamental.

And this really motivates me.

And if I were to meet my young self, I would immediately connect to that person.

And people that knew me back then as a kid, they say I haven't changed much.

I was good in sports.

I could have, you know, I was offered to be a member of the Delta Force in Israel.

I said, no, I prefer to use my head for thinking.

And then

Today, I jog every morning since COVID.

I jog every morning at sunrise three miles in the company of birds, bunnies, ducks, wild turkeys, and it's wonderful.

I feel much more accomplished doing that than any title that I would get in academia.

I don't really care about that.

I don't care much about money.

This doesn't really attract me.

It's really trying to figure out something important about our existence that motivates me.

Well, take us back then, because you skipped a part that I want to hear about.

So you're on the farm, you're collecting eggs, you're riding tractors.

I don't think a lot of people know about the Talpia program and how...

selective that is.