I learned easily and had time to follow my inclination for sports (light athletics and skiing) and chemistry, which I taught myself by reading all textbooks I could get.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find. Formal chemistry at school seemed boring by comparison, and my performance was routine. In contrast, I did spectacularly well in mathematics and sailed through classes and exams with ease.
What I knew was I liked math and science, and I never wanted to memorize everything. I wanted to understand where it came from.
My best subjects were chemistry and math.
I didn't go to school much, so I taught myself what I knew from reading.
In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
I loved to learn everything, everything in sight, and I was never satisfied that I knew everything there was to know in each of my courses.
I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.
I talk often about being intrinsically motivated by learning. It's the primary driver of most of my activity.
I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill.