Today, on the Entrepreneurial issues class: A speaker presented his experience... He left his job as a university teacher in a MAJOR US university to start a company in order to push his research discoveries forward through regulations processes in order to get it on the market.
His reason for doing it: Humanitarian reasons or as he said "The results were just too promising to just let them sleep in the darkness of a university laboratory."
The results he was talking about were experimental proofs that this technology could, through drug delivery, make possible NEURAL REGENERATION. Personally, being kind of a scientist, I can tell you that this is the Holy Grail of regenerative neuroscience... The only thing that struck me was the fact that even though the results were promising, they didn't seem conclusive enough to give birth to a useful medical technology.
So here is our guy: Determined and really knowledgeable in his field like those people that you can guess, even by their manners, have the highest intellectual education. He had this behavior of a really smart person... maybe too smart for everyone else. It was clear to be seen, and if you couldn't see it was to be felt, on his way of speaking and the ideas he transmitted throughout the presentation. Nevertheless, he looked lost, had this empty look that morally exhausted people have. He had the attitude of the men determined to do great things no matter the cost... in fact, he described what his point of view on prices to pay in life:
"You haven’t yet paid the highest price you will be called on to make"
He looked passionate, he looked smart, he looked determined and he looked sad, but above all he looked consumed and worn...
[This made me realize a couple of things about human will and about perception. I hope this works out for you too...]
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