Speaker 2
Yeah, and did you see a path when you, like you said, you freelanced for about seven months? When did you start to see, okay, maybe this sort of creator path? It didn't even really have that name a few years ago, but when did you see this other sort of direction pulling you forward?
Speaker 1
There were several steps. The first one was after the six months of freelancing and having a lot more time for self-reflection, for asking myself what I wanted, a big question that helped me was asking myself, what is something that you'd love to learn about and to keep on reading about and exploring, even if there was no money involved, even if nobody was paying you for it, what would that be? And for me, it was the mind and the brain. I've always been fascinated about how the mind works, how the brain works. So I decided at the ripe age of 28 to go back to university to start my studies again. And it's only after a few months that I learned about the generation effects. And I used to, as a kid, when I was a teenager, I had a blog, I had an online community. It's so funny to think about right now, but I was already doing all of these things when I was around 13, 14 with the online forums. I didn't have a newsletter at the time, but had the blog with the weekly articles. I was doing all of this already. And it brought me so much joy at the time. I remember loving doing that. And I was not being paid by anyone. So I just figured that if I could combine this curiosity that I had for the brain and for the mind with that very tangible outlet for creativity that I knew already I loved from when I was a teenager, this could be a fun thing to