Shawn Ryan

You're then going to try to build an airplane and then want to work for these aerospace companies.

Like a linear kind of story arc with a bunch of fast-paced projects type of thing in between was something I think that...

came out of this otherwise like intense, like go do it well attitude.

Oh, I mean, I don't know.

I don't think, I don't recall myself as being like a better reader than my classmates.

If anything, when I was in kindergarten, like Alison Larrabee could read all of the joke cups.

And so like, I mean, I could read, but like maybe my vocabulary was not as expansive.

And so then my parents would like buy all of the Dixie joke cups, like, you know, in bulk to then be able to at least read the words on them.

But like, but then the kids still would just go to Allison, maybe because she was like the first person like that they knew could read the joke cups or because she had more friends.

I don't know.

But like, yeah, so I don't think I was necessarily reading faster, but I probably was talking a lot earlier.

And they used to do a thing where it's like, if I could write it out, then they'd let me, like if I asked for a car ride at some random time of night, if I could write it on the little chalkboard, they'd take me on a car ride.

So a lot of extrinsic motivational stuff.

I don't, and that's probably why all the intense story stuff is because it's like one kid, one shot.

I would say that it wasn't anything that... Before, it would have been just going all out on every little class project just for the heck of it.

Nothing that cool, and I think that... But the one thing is it was kind of...

like it was pretty clear to see how easily like the goals were shaped by either like strong reactions to, or like taking on ideas from like the people that you talk to.

So like when I was flying, everyone would be like, oh, one day you're gonna be like flying the, or Boeing one day when we're like, we're like taking a vacation.

I'm like, no, I don't wanna do that.

I wanna be a, I don't wanna do that.