Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted

摘要

" I can't not write," a friend once told me. She was a full-time student and had never earned a dollar from writing. Nonetheless, she was a writer in the truest sense of the word. I wondered what it felt like to be an artist filled with such passion. Although math was always my favorite subject in high school, I studied zoology in college, hoping for a job that would let me spend time outdoors. I ended up working in a laboratory processing samples collected by field biologists. Each biologist had a particular focus. Each was an expert in his or her chosen field. Their passion was evident, but not contagious. I wondered what it must feel like to be a scientist driven by such focus.