Ray Kurzweil

I think that your mindset is the mechanism by which you react to challenges and opportunities.

And we take the mindset we inherited, mindsets that we speak about in our book, a curiosity mindset, gratitude mindset, longevity mindset, purpose-driven mindset, exponential moonshot mindset.

In other words, how you think about things.

It's like fundamentally the most important thing that is not taught.

We just accept what we have.

Where a mindset is, in fact, like how you teach a neural net, right?

Your brain's a neural net and you teach a neural net by example after example after example.

And your mindset, if you watch CNN every night, your mindset is fear.

Right?

If you listen to moonshots, your mindset, hopefully, is optimism and hope.

So training students with mindsets is, for me, needs to start in middle school or high school.

And it's completely lacking in the educational system.

I've got to say, Flo.

I don't know.

Well, it might do sense.

When I was here at MIT, I did everything I could to finish all my classes by the end of junior year so I could have my whole senior year open to read.

I ended up reading every document with the word neural net in it that had ever been written my entire senior year.

The university is incredibly open to you changing your curriculum.

And if you go to every student and say, study whatever the hell you want, we got like one year worth of garbage you have to study just to prove you can get a grade.

But then after that, you're on your own.