"I mean, I do feel like adolescence is much more important than I think people give credit for. I think that there is this kind of a sense the first three years of life is the most important part, but the teenage years are just so important for the brain. And so that’s where a lot of mental illness starts to emerge. Now we’re thinking of things like schizophrenia as a neurodevelopmental disorder because it just emerges during that period of adolescence and early adulthood. And I think the other part of it is is that I guess I was a little bit too firm in saying that memory determines who we are. It’s really the self is an evolving construct. I think we kind of underestimate that."

"Basically I think that a lot of learning in the brain is driven towards being able to make sense. I mean really memory is all about the present and the future. The past is done. So biologically speaking, it’s not important unless there’s something from the past that’s useful. And so what our brains are really optimized for is to learn about the stuff from the past that’s going to be most useful and understanding the present and predicting the future. And so cause-effect relationships for instance, that’s a big one. Now my future is completely unpredictable in the sense that you could in the next 10 minutes pull a knife on me and slit my throat."

"But it became a great story. And it was definitely, Randy and I were already tight, but that was a real bonding experience for us. And I learned from that that it’s like I don’t look back on that enough actually because I think we often, at least for me, I don’t necessarily have the confidence to think that things will work out, that I’ll be able to get through certain things. But my ability to actually get something done in that moment is better than I give myself credit for, I think. And that was the lesson of that story that I really took away."