Dr. Brian Keating

And so the thing to think about, as I always say to, I talked to a group of high school kids a week or two ago, and I was like, you know, people worship different things in different fields, right?

I mean, a podcaster might worship, you know, Joe Rogan or Ryan Hanley, you know, they might worship, you know, a sports hero, you know, and Manny Machado here in San Diego.

But the fact is that these people are ordinary people at heart.

No one's a Nobel Prize-winning World Series champion and also has a Pinterest, thriving Pinterest.

and whatever, Etsy influencer status.

Okay, you have to choose, and it's inevitable you're gonna choose, but you should choose.

It shouldn't be the universe choosing for you, or worse, randomly just like how you got into things.

So the point is, in science, it's unlike kind of a business, right?

If Apple doesn't sell you an iPhone,

then you're probably going to get one from, you know, Samsung or, you know, get an Android phone, right?

It's a zero, it's called a zero sum game.

But science is what's called an infinite game.

So there is no winning.

I can't win science.

You know, even if you win the Nobel Prize, like nobody cares on, you know, Jupiter, if there are people there, like you won the Nobel Prize because you didn't win it.

You just specialize in one field and it's incredible competition.

But, you know, as many of these people say, you know, they basically are,

Relay racers in this infinite chain, this race that goes back to prehistoric times when the first person came out of a cave and said, what are those dots in the night?

What are those things up there?

Where do they come from?