Scott Barry Kaufman

I mean, I was so mortified.

And I remember him asking me, what do I want to be someday?

You know, what are my dreams?

And I remember seeing the tag name, Dr. Milnick, I believe was the name, Dr. Milnick, psychologist.

And I remember it just like snapped in my head.

I remember telling him, I want to be a psychologist.

I want to be a psychologist.

And I still have the reports.

I have them all saved from like 1989 or something like that, where it said when he grows up, he wants to be an academic PhD psychologist.

But here's a big kicker to this.

My mom tells me that they told her that your son wants to be an academic PhD psychologist.

He wrote that on his thing, but we think he has delusions of grandeur.

I remember taking a shower and just closing my eyes and giving a 50-minute speech on human potential.

The thing that excited me were ideas about how people are capable of so much more than they realize, how we don't really see the fullness of a human being.

And this is even before TED Talks, but I remember in my head, the recollection of it is that the kind of talk I was giving matches exactly what a modern-day TED Talk looks like, you know?

I became obsessed with IQ tests around that point.

I remember just taking one IQ test after another.

Some of them I didn't do too well on.

And then some of them I did really, really well on.

And I was like, okay, I'm going to throw away those ones that said they weren't so good.