Dax Shepard

So there I was going into the lab, which I've never imagined that I would do behind the bench, starting all these molecular experiments.

Yeah.

I really did want to understand what makes human tick.

And I really wanted to understand the brain better.

But I don't think that at the time I had a specific idea.

I've always had this thirst for knowledge, which maybe will explain why I did what I did.

Because at that time, I was almost done with my residency.

It's been many years going through medical school and then coming here and doing another year of internship.

I had to do two years.

I had to repeat a year of internship.

Then I did adult psychiatry and then child psychiatry altogether another five years.

So after doing all that training.

You were 71 years old.

And when we think, okay, it's time to make money, right?

You have to open up your private practice and start making money.

And then, oh, wait a second, I still really want to learn more.

And I'm going to take a salary, which maybe is like a tenth of the amount and just continue with my education and learning.

But I didn't even think about it that way at the time.

Now, looking back, I can see, whoa, these are important years where you could have saved money for retirement.

Right.