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We cannot be great, unless we are also good.
And to be good, we must ask questions.
Questions that ask something of us.
Well, I think that I've always wanted
to understand how life adapts, how all of us
end up evolving and fitting in.
What I think about is, how do we create a better future
where all people and all natural systems can thrive together?
How such contagions can be detected, potentially,
before they start?
How to investigate treatment options for people
with chronic pain problems?
Can we teach our students to be better leaders, as well
as better citizens?
Can you provide meaningful redress
to those who have lost everything?
How can we use these tools that we have access to
in ways that can help families during this really
difficult time?
Can I develop an intervention that would protect patients?
Can we do things together that we couldn't do separately?
And I find that asking the question, "well,
couldn't we at least" as a way to get started?
Can we do it?
That's my driving question.
And then I have to have faith that we can.
So then the question is, how do we do it?
What are the skills, what are the attitudes, what's
the knowledge, what's the new discoveries,
what's the new practices and habits and behaviors
that we need to cultivate in the next generation of leaders
to help us get there?
We are trying to, and we can respond
to the needs of societies.
The other question I ask all the time is, what truly matters?
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