If you take 10,000 people at random, 9,999 have something in common: their interests in business lie on or near the Earth's surface. The odd one out is an astronomer, and I am one of that strange breed.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
In this business, my business, I get to meet all kinds of incredible people, fascinating people, glamorous people and sexy people and highly intellectual people. And you meet them and you go 'interesting, interesting, interesting'. They're interesting, but not very many people stop you in your tracks.
Statisticians tell us that people underestimate the sheer number of coincidences that are bound to happen in a world governed by chance.
When you've got 10,000 people trying to do the same thing, why would you want to be number 10,001?
People are pretty strange.
When we meet people who are astronauts or deal in astronomy, it's always really fascinating.
I don't think even one per cent of the people in this world explore more than 10 per cent of all that this world has to offer. That's a shame!
There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.
There are two types of people in the world, and I'm one of them.
I meet a lot of people.
I thought I was an odd person, and since my hometown had only about 70,000 people in it, I knew I was going to have to leave there and go out and find other odd people.
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