Stay Curious & Open

I don't think there was ever a moment where I said, 'Oh, this is what I want to do.' As a kid, I was always interested in Indiana Jones movies. I felt a pull toward archaeology and the spiritual aspects interlaced through the franchise films. In addition to that, I was interested in business and international travel. I was interested in music, I was a musician as well. I was interested in medicine, physics, chemistry, and engineering. These are all things I expressed in some way throughout my career. The diversity of the things I do has been one of the most fun aspects of my work because I am never bored. What I found when I started filing all these patents, and I am close to having 100 patents now, is that the innovations were coming because I took concepts from one area and applied them to entirely new areas where they had not been applied before. Applied mathematics is geometry, applied geometry is physics, applied physics is chemistry, applied chemistry is biology, applied biology is psychology, applied psychology is sociology, applied sociology is back to philosophy, and applied philosophy is back to mathematics. It is one big circle. We artificially separate it all out and teach it as if these things shall never meet. The only thing that can solve complex problems is greater simplicity.