Maya Shankar

These days, you can find her snowboarding and rock climbing on the weekends.

Christine shared with me something that she could have never have imagined thinking before all this.

that if given the choice today, she would choose not to have her vision restored.

Though she did tell me she'd like it back for a moment because she really wants to know what Justin Bieber looks like.

All right, let's move on to the second question.

This one is about our values, and it's inspired by a conversation I had with a science journalist named Florence Williams.

One evening about five years ago, Florence and her husband were hosting a dinner party for their friends.

As she was preparing the salad, her husband handed her his phone so that she could read an email from her relative.

But he'd mistakenly pulled up the wrong email.

What Florence saw instead was a lengthy note from her husband confessing his love to another woman.

I know.

Florence's 25-year marriage came to an end, and she told me that she was taken aback by the physical and emotional intensity of her heartbreak.

She said it felt like she'd been plugged into a faulty electrical socket.

Since Florence is a problem solver by nature, she instinctively saw her heartbreak as a problem to solve and developed a year-long systematic plan to try and fix it.

Florence tried a bunch of things.

She took solo trips into the wilderness.

She tried a range of experimental therapies.

She even went to the Museum of Broken Relationships, which I promise is a thing.

You name it, she tried it.

But by the end of the year, none of these remedies had healed her broken heart.