“He read obsessively, practiced yoga, became expert at the martial arts. He sustained a perfect 4.0 grade-point average through high school and college. At the University of Washington and later at Seattle University, he immersed himself in anthropology, history, philosophy, and linguistics, accumulating hundreds of credit hours without collecting a degree. He saw no reason to. The pursuit of knowledge, he maintained, was a worthy objective in its own right and needed no external validation.”
– Jon Krakauer on Gene Rosellini
i wish i could be like gene. if i put more focus on the pursuit of knowledge rather than the pursuit of happiness, i’d be doing a lot better in school.