Dr. Amir Levine

And they really put more emphasis on creativity and sort of thinking original thoughts.

They didn't give them – they wouldn't even give them – and they said they didn't want to get an A-plus or they always wanted to get this is original.

This is really thought-provoking.

That was the grade that they were, like, really looking for.

And so my mom –

She didn't believe in grades.

And also, when I didn't have to go to school, I could always stay at home and not go to school if I didn't want to, especially on days that we had exams.

I didn't have to go because she didn't believe in grades.

So I did stay home a lot, and I read a lot.

We had a big library, and I read all sorts of stuff from a very, very young age, things that are probably maybe it was completely uncensored, things that maybe I shouldn't have read.

I didn't even understand what I was reading, like sort of a book about the Kama Sutra.

I was like, what is this?

As a seven-year-old.

You're like, what is this?

but there was such an openness to explore and she was also and I guess that's where my love for science and also for popular science came from she was like an editor for something similar to Scientific American and we had a lot of

Really living with her was like living in a book club.

There was really a lot of pursuit about intellectual ideas.

That's the environment I grew up in.

And I'm very, very thankful to that.

I feel very fortunate.