I have always wondered how a person gets an ‘interest’ in any profession. In most cases, it is peer pressure, and in other cases, it could be personal trauma which is the catalyst. I don’t think I can answer the question even if I have access to all the thoughts of any one person (as a matter of fact, I do have access to all of one person’s thoughts). The curious thing is, we don’t live in isolation. We are constantly interacting with other people, reacting to them, reacting to the non-people things, so it’s complicated. Now, as far as I am concerned, I have always wanted to be a scientist. I cannot recall any time when I did not want to be a scientist. So even when I did not know what exactly being a scientist means, I have wanted to be a scientist. I find that very weird. It is not what an intelligent person would do. It smacks of the byproducts of the backmasking circuits of the mind. So, anyway when I was in six...