Niko Papademetriou

And I just started to say, I can be my own version of something like that.

Not that I have to be the same thing or do it the way he did it.

But I can find my own areas of expertise, things that make me excited, things that make me want to wake up every morning and work 12 or 15 hours.

That realization, I think, changed my life.

But it's really been my father who was my mentor, my North Star, the person I looked up to.

And again, I think the most important thing is...

As soon as I learned that instead of trying to model myself after him, instead, I should actually just embrace who I am and what I'm good at.

I think my life changed.

There's a reason that we have senses in our body.

In the early days, it was so that if you touch something and it was super pointy or super hot, you didn't have to pick it up.

And if you saw something that looked scary like a shark, you know, swim in the opposite direction, right?

If you smelled fire, walk in the, run in the other direction, right?

There's a reason we have senses.

And I think we forget that because we live in a modern world that's very different, right?

We live in apartment buildings and houses and we drive cool cars and we walk around with supercomputers in our hands.

And so I think sometimes we forget to use our senses.

And what I mean by that is look, listen, feel.

These are the most basic things that we have today.

genetically as humans.

If you look at the most amazing, I don't know, people in history, I don't know, from an Einstein to a whomever, whatever, these people look at problems and generally they came up with very simple approaches to very complex problems.