Tim Ferriss

And then in some cases, you had six period, which was classes after sports.

You'd finish school, like, whatever, 6 p.m., go back to your room, like, splash water on your face, get on a suit and tie, and then go to seated meal.

Chapel in the morning.

I mean, the workload, the intensity was unbelievable.

I was accustomed to doing really well in school without having to try very hard.

And suddenly I was like barely keeping my head above water.

And it was great for me.

It was great for me.

It was really hard.

But having a few male role models in particular who were like, you can do it.

Yeah, it's hard.

But, like, yeah, you can do it.

And just, like, having to push through that initial sunburn of, like, too much sun exposure in terms of stress.

What were you into as a kid?

I mean, at that point, I mean, I was very interested.

Even at that point, I was very interested in neuroscience.

I wanted to be a neuroscientist.

Because I had seen my grandmother disintegrate with Alzheimer's.

And I was also very interested just in learning in general and how you could accelerate learning from a very young age because

it just seemed like there was a wide open field of possibility there that folks weren't exploring.