How Beating the Smartest Kid in Class Led to a Lifelong Love of Learning

Learning to play drums in high school, and then playing in five different bands, created a richness and sense of happiness to my life I can’t emphasize enough.

Yet, what I learned from my biggest ‘science experiment’ dwarfs this experience.

During my freshman year, my Earth Science teacher “saw something in me” and recommended that I be moved into an ad…