Whether you're 15 or 50, when the spark presents itself, pour kerosene on it.

Fun fact about me, Bob London. When I was 12 years old, I was selected for a program, uh, the Study of Verbally Gifted Youth at Johns Hopkins University, which some of you may have heard of. I'm— I somewhere still might have the letter. Even at that age, I knew that was kind of a big deal. I had shown some talent and aptitude for verbally means— doesn't mean vocally, it means verbally. It's just words, mostly written. What happened from that point on was nothing. I was not in charge of making the decision of whether I should participate in that study, which I think involved some sort of summer camp program for verbally gifted youth. My parents, who were both trained as teachers at the beginning of their careers and were both you know, very educated and understood the value of education, felt like, even though I was very young, about careers and sort of like, let's not encourage the creative side of Bobby. My mother would've preferred me to think about accounting or law, something professional and concrete. But that came at the expense of me being nurtured in a direction where I had skills. Now, the good news is I've come full circle many times throughout my career. My skills at writing and verbal communications have helped me stand out and get to good places. And today I exercise a lot of creativity in a lot of the things I do. But I think the point is, like many things, I try to understand that in raising our kids, that if they show an inkling of this or that, is to sort of— there's a spark. Let's pour some, some kerosene on that spark, make it bigger, help them go where their strengths are. If there's a signal, if there's a spark, I don't care if you're 50 years old, take that spark and treat it like what it is, which is it's potentially the beginning of a positive explosion.