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Zila so glad you're here thanks for having me truth is we're all super different we all have our own gifts we all have our own limitations when and how did you come to realize how special you are so that's a complicated question I will say because I didn't so much realize I I realized I was a special but I became special through a process of like

training and stuff if you look back on it like I wasn't I wouldn't say I popped the wound uh like a a genius or something like that it's like when people start to stop and look at me while I was dribbling or practicing out of court people like stop and look cuz Hey look at this cute little girl I was very small when I was that

age so this cute little girl dribbling two balls and doing all this between leg step backs into shots and stuff so pretty early on I realized that yeah I might be a little bit different than the average kid you won this like completely beloved national competition but it's something that I think you no longer consider your main passion or or maybe you didn't even consider it

your main passion then what does what does basketball make you feel that that spelling doesn't I would say basketball gives me a even more of like the competitive rush like I just really love to compete and stuff so like and like spelling it's more like ah yes it's it's not really like personto person comp competition it's more like person versus dictionary which is something you hear

a lot from spelling be people was like it's me versus the dictionary cuz that's where the words are coming from whereas with basketball it's more like uh like physical competition like oh I made it between the legs and there's this a girl on me and I have to Shield her off and it's like more tangible competition as opposed to the more philosophical competition of spelling I

want to ask you about a very different kind of Genius uh there's this billionaire Named Sam bigman freed think you've heard of him of course widely considered to be the world's you know great great crypto genius before he was then charged with fraud which he has denied how should the rest of us look at people who get called Geniuses but maybe they still have shortcomings just

like I I I listen to a podcast about S bankman free but I obviously I don't know him personally so I can't speak for him but hypothetically like he's like his parents are like oh my God you're you're so smart he goes to accelerated programs in school and that's just putting pressure from a very early age like I'm a genius I have to be a genius

I have to always be a genius so I always feel like people like some of the scammers and stuff should get Maybe Just a Little Bit of Sympathy just a little bit cuz they are like causing all sorts of trouble because like they've been considered Geniuses their whole life and they had a nice business plan or something but then it didn't work out and so what

are they supposed to do go to all these people who say oh you're a genius that just puts a little pressure on you to like give you that extra push you needed to try to maybe go into the murky Waters of Life the murky Waters of life I want to ask you one final question about pressure I think that there is sometimes pressure in the United

States maybe everywhere pressure on really smart people genius or otherwise to use their intelligence to like make a lot of money to be successful and like I guess I'm thinking specifically about the finance industry and mathematicians but you know it's true of the business world you know you're smart you go go make money in business do you have a favorite company or an industry or like

a job that appeals to you I mean not I'm not like super like make millions of dollars make millions of dollars I mean if anybody who's watching or listening wants to give me millions of dollars please hit me up however like I'm interested in going to Neuroscience or maybe working for NASA or maybe being an NBA head coach like but I just realized I've never thought

how much money would I get for this because that's not really something like I think of because you can make a lot of money not to sound TR but you can also be really miserable making a lot of money so that's not even something I actually consider like how much money will I make I'll cross that bridge when it comes zla you're gonna cross the bridge

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