Dr. Darryl Stickel

And it's hard not to feel like it was intentional somehow, right?

Like this whole pattern of events was leading to me learning and understanding this topic the way that I do.

And after I finished, they sat me down and they said, you know, when you first came to us, we, we had a conversation with each other.

We said, topic's too big.

He'll never solve it.

It's too complicated.

We'll give him six months.

He'll come crawling back to us and we'll let him chisel off a little piece of this.

And that'll be his thesis.

They said six months in, you were so far beyond us.

We couldn't help anymore.

All we could do is sit and watch.

Now here we are a couple of years later and we think you've solved it.

And so I ended up going to McKinsey and company working as a consultant and they said, wow, you've got good client hands.

Let's send you to the worst place as possible.

So now I'm getting a chance to apply the concepts that I've worked on.

Right.

And then I was injured again, post concussion syndrome.

I was on the way to a client site cab.

I was in rear ended another vehicle and.