Perlman's O Bita - Is This the Right Audience for Recognizing Poman?

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Poman's mam showed him a violin when he was six years old. He immediately became obsessed with the thing, willed his way into juliard and then pearlman is like, you're going to be my person kind. Poman: "Sometimes life doesn't give you the silver platter, and you just have to create opportunities where they don't exist"

Maya Shankar is a cognitive scientist and the host of A Slight Change of Plans.

”I am a type A person through and through. I love having the five-year plan and the ten-year plan, and mapping it all out. By nature, that's what I'm like. And I think the series of pivots that my life has naturally taken, or I've had to take, has kind of soured me on that whole way of thinking. […] Maybe it's also that I'm a more grateful person than I used to be. Like, I feel more gratitude, and so part of my orientation now is, well, how lucky am I that I even stumbled upon something?”

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