Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
I try to be unafraid of making a fool of myself.
As a writer, the best mindset is to be unafraid.
I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
You don't want to be first, right? You want to be second or third. You don't want to be - Facebook is not the first in social media. They're the third, right? Similarly, you know, if you look at Steve Jobs' history, he's never been first.
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.