120Let’s say you meet a new person at a party this weekend.Isn’t it interesting how you might say, “What do you do?” and they might reply, “I’m a marketing manager,” but if you dig — if you really connect — you might discover that they lived in Kenya for two years, they started a non-profit, and they’re getting their scuba certification?How often does that happen…vs. us just saying, “Oh, cool. Well, I’m going to get some celery…bye!I always admired people who had weird, fascinating backgrounds. For example, in college, one of my professors was a nuclear risk analyst before she became a psychiatrist specializing in trauma. She could make connections that the rest of us couldn’t even fathom.I decided to study a totally interdisciplinary set of courses, including psychology, decision-making, con men, deception, magic, seduction, risk, and human-computer interaction
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