Gad Saad

I doubt that, maybe not your brother, I doubt that most actuarial scientists go, I'm going to get into that actuarial table today like there's no tomorrow.

I'm going to spank that actuarial table.

Do you want to guess what Dr. Saad's sibling order is?

You're the youngest.

By far.

So let me step, before I answer that and the way you frame the question, let me explain what the mechanism is, okay?

Oh, I love it.

Yeah.

Is that...

That's psychology.

So let me tell you the background to that theory, okay?

Which I've done my own research on and published work on it.

But the original theory comes from Frank Soloway, who's a historian of science.

who wrote a book which I highly recommend to all your viewers.

It's a bit technical, but you can get through it.

It's called Born to Rebel.

It's a book that explores historically the people who've generated the biggest breakthrough radical scientific innovations and what was their birth order.

And it turns out

not unlike how you did it with the 10 and eight of them were last born, out of the 28 most radical scientific innovations ever posited, 23 out of the 28 were the last born, later borns.

So then the question is, okay, well, fine, that's just a phenomenon, but what explains it?