Scott Barry Kaufman

I want to tell you something.

And he's like, sure, no problem, no problem.

And I sat down, I said, hey, I was a student of yours and you changed my life.

And he said, oh, yeah, by in a sort of screw you sort of way, probably.

He said that and I laughed and I said, well, you did.

I'm a psychologist now and I didn't feel the need to yell at him or tell him the whole story.

But he said something very interesting to me when I told him I'm a psychologist now.

He said,

He's like, well, that's interesting.

I'm actually tutoring a kid right now who really low IQ, really low IQ is really not the sharpest tool in the shed.

Well, my blood boiled a bit and I

I calmed myself down.

I just said, maybe you could just keep looking deeper at beyond the IQ and to maybe think about him in a bit of a broader way where you look at the totality of him, not a particular slice of him when you're making that kind of judgment call.

And he agreed.

I mean, he, he agreed to his credit.

He, he's like, that's a good point.

And I just kind of realized in that moment, like,

you know what?

Like he's not evil.

He's human.