Journey and not the destination

Adam Savage “plays a scientist on TV”, and regardless of what you may think about Mythbusters as a show and what you might think about their science/methods, you have to admit that he does a great job getting kids and people in general thinking about problem solving and general science geekery. So even before watching this video, I had a fair amount of respect for him. But after watching this video, that respect has gone up a notch as he isn’t insanely curious on TV, he is in real life as well. He is also very much a professional “professional amateur”, granted one that has many more connections and many more resources than your average person who does something from a point of passion and does it well enough that they could perhaps make a living. This video really helps to underline how the journey to an end result is often far more fruitful, especially when learning, than the end result. Chasing grades will only result in a letter, learning about X will leave you with likely most of the alphabet. Be sure to read the comments left on the video and see what people there have said.