Jennifer Tosti-Kharas

In fact, absent this huge risk to chuck it all and move to Tahiti, we would not have the art that I love going to the MFA in Boston and looking at this giant, famous, maybe one of the most iconic Gauguin paintings, which hangs proudly there.

And we would not have this beautiful art that everyone loves.

appreciates and loves to look at.

Her impact today is widely felt in the use of radiology and medicine.

She's completely changed the way we think about radioactivity, evident in so many domains of modern life.

Yet on top of that, perhaps in a way that we wouldn't say Gauguin was,

Marie Curie was a groundbreaker.

So she was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize.

She was not only that, the first person to win a Nobel Prize twice and in separate disciplines, so in physics and in chemistry.

Similarly, her sort of all or nothing, all in commitment to doing the science, I think really sets it apart.

So this is similarly someone who was somewhat obsessed with her work, put a great deal into it.

And for her, it wasn't about, you know, fame or recognition.

She famously gave away her Nobel Prize money to students who needed it.

But she you know, she was a towering figure who we recognize today.

Yeah.

And I think that is really the ultimate symbol of us being willing to sacrifice everything for our work is the willingness to potentially die as a result of the work or related to the work that we're doing, whether it's directly from the work itself or as a result of not taking care of ourselves because we are pursuing work that we love.

So absolutely.

I think the common thread here is this notion that work can be a calling.

It can be more than just a paycheck.

It can be a source of personal fulfillment, of doing great things in the world.