David Kipping
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
And you have to be a little bit vulnerable to let your, you know, I'm a romantic.
So I wanted that romantic vibe.
element of astronomy to come out.
Why am I so passionate about the stars?
What are the deep questions that moved me since I was a kid?
You have to let that personality come out.
And once people realize why you personally are so fascinated by this, it becomes infectious.
And then they start to get the same bug.
So yeah, I learned as a communicator that certainly being willing to be vulnerable, it feels very strange as a scientist to talk about vulnerability and emotional connection.
But unless you let that in, it becomes dry.
It becomes inaccessible.
I always think with Alanis Morissette's
Me and my dad talk about that album all the time.
There's so much rawness in that damn album.
You can't imitate that.
Because no one wants to see a copy.
You want to see something fresh.
That's what makes it exciting.
That's why I don't do those shows anymore.