Dr. K
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But you don't get to take your vows until you're 30 years old and you have a doctoral degree.
Those were their two requirements.
Then you could give it up and come live like that.
Yeah, yeah.
So, I mean, these were my teachers.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Right?
So my teachers were amazing.
They also knew me very well.
They're like, yeah, you really don't want this.
You know, you don't realize.
And they explained something interesting to me.
They said that becoming a monk is going to be harder than anything you do in the real world.
So if you can't succeed in the real world, you're not going to succeed as a monk.
You don't fail as a monk, yeah.
Yeah.
Right.
Wow.
So, so, so that's how I ended up getting a target of, of, you know, okay, I'm going to, I'm going to become a doctor and.
And to do something big that I have to then sacrifice and give up.