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I'm passionate about

learning and understanding.

Talk to me about

Anything. Your mind is mine to discover :)

People don't know that I'm good at

I don't want to brag, but...I can make some pretty hardcore pancakes.

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• A reply on Conversation: What do you want to understand?

  Feb 4 2013: It seems that you have gone through many painful experiences. Do you miss the innocence you once were, and if so what about it? Do you have regrets, Robert?

• A reply on Conversation: What do you want to understand?

  Feb 4 2013: Have you made it into a career? And how far have you been successful in gaining what it is you seek?

• A reply on Conversation: What do you want to understand?

  Feb 4 2013: Thank you Robert, I thoroughly enjoyed your response. I agree with everything you've said and your words have given me inspiration. Towards what, I do not know. Yet, I believe in the future I will look back upon your lesson and it will help me somehow. I am still struggling to accept myself as are many others, and have this insatiable craving for understanding. I hope to satisfy it one day, but as you've pointed out in your second last paragraph, there is no end. I suppose though, that it makes it all the more exciting!

• A reply on Conversation: What do you want to understand?

  Feb 4 2013: I had a good laugh XD

• A reply on Conversation: What do you want to understand?

  Feb 4 2013: I must say I find brains and it;s capabilities the most fascinating thing. As you can tell from my picture, i'm still very young (still in high school) and am trying hard to figure out my future. I want to know what people are passionate about, why they are passionate and how it all works. It gets me excited just thinking about it! AH! I hope I have the same level of curiosity and interest when I begin to go into the field.
  
  Has there been anything in particular you found yourself most passionate about?
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  A reply on Conversation: What do you want to understand?

  Feb 4 2013: I think that it's important not to be afraid, but rather confident. When I say to have confidence, I do not mean that one should do something once and think that because it worked that one time it's good enough. I mean have confidence in your capabilities, in yourself. It's the classic tale of the tortoise and the hare. The tortoise who was clearly slower than the rabbit, but took on the challenge of the race anyways ended up winning. I am sure you will find some way Greg, to boost your talking skills on air. I admit that i'm still nervous when it comes to public speaking but I prepare myself thoroughly and practice to pride myself in the skill.
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  A reply on Conversation: Why were YOU were born?

  Jan 21 2013: Thank you for the compliment :)
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  A comment on Conversation: Why were YOU were born?

  Jan 21 2013: I was born to experience living; that's how I define being alive. Do I know my greatest speciality that will contribute greatly to the world? No, but I also don't think that's a reason for living. Right now, I live for an understanding. It's a rather simple concept, but it's limitless. I live for an understanding to know why the world works as it does, what is the great driving force, what makes a person a person, why do we think, how do we think, what causes us to think certain things, what is the fundamental essence of what we are and why is it that? I love physics, I love neuroscience, I love philosophy and I love art. They are not the reasons I live, though. I was not born to learn about these topics. I was born to experience them.