“I was very shallow. Life rotated around girls, partying, drinking, waking up with a hangover and then going out and chasing girls and going out to bars again … I used to say ‘math is stupid, how can you use that in the real world’? And I thought that was like a smart statement. I really believed it.” BBC: The violent attack that turned a man into a math genius. (Being able to succeed without getting a violent beating is one of the main reasons I chose to focus on the Humanities.)