Dr. Luis Garcia

We were going to a private school.

But yet our neighborhood was a neighborhood of really poor people.

And just being raised watching those contrasts where if I went to school, I was friends with very affluent people.

Came back home and I was friends with my neighborhood people.

You know, we were playing on dirt streets after the rain, getting muddy.

And those contrasts really allowed us to find meaning on life, no matter what the circumstances are.

And it also gives us the sense that we had a duty in life to become better so we could help others become better as well.

Yeah, definitely.

And, you know, interestingly, every successful person that I have had the chance to speak with, I'm always intrigued about what was the fork on the road, right?

Where they needed to choose either left or right.

Yes.

What made them choose one or the other and what was the impact of that?

I have had three or four forks in the road my life, but

Perhaps the one that definitely created a difference was the decision to leave home, to leave Mexico and come to the United States.

If you think about it, my dad, once again, his own hospital, very successful surgeon, super known in the community.

I had everything set to be successful by my dad's side.

But at the same time, I discovered that if I stayed, I was always going to be my dad's son.

So it was that angst to create my own identity.

And if I was going to come back, I needed to bring something better to what my dad was offering.

So that really allowed me to start exploring what were the opportunities outside of the environment that I grew up and maybe outside in another country.