Scott Barry Kaufman

I didn't do that.

It reaffirmed how much I love psychology.

You know when you meet something, you're like, this is me, and then you go away from it, and you come back to it, and it's still this is me?

That's telling you something.

That's important information.

And I was like, I've got to do this.

I was so nervous and excited.

I didn't know if I was going to be able to be as intelligent as I needed to be to be a research assistant at Cambridge University.

It was almost hard for me to fathom that I would legitimately be intelligent enough to be worthy of the situation.

I was like, Scott, even with all your grandiose fantasies and everything, this is a little...

Are you serious?

Nick couldn't have been more wonderful, more supportive, and he must have seen something in me.

He saw the person that I was in that moment.

I mean, he didn't know my background.

By the way, I kept all this a secret from him throughout all the times we worked together and everything.

You know, he didn't look at my IQ score when I was age 11.

And he accepted me to work with him.

And I did some pretty rigorous research with him in that six months as an undergrad that would then form the basis of my master's thesis with him.

He said, this is not an intelligence test that I'm creating.

This is a test that I've been given the task of differentiating those who would need more remediation and those who don't.