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Erik: What post college experience did the most to bolster your self-confidence?
Ken: My wife agreeing to marry me.
Erik: Yeah?
Ken: Yeah, It’s one of these things where… On a recent episode of “How I Met Your Mother”
there was the settler and the reacher. In my marriage I am certainly the reacher and
my wife is definitely the settler. [laughs] I’d say there is a second thing if you’re
interested.
Erik: Yeah.
Ken: Getting that Ph.D.
Erik: Yeah?
Ken: I was in grad school for two years to do my masters and then 5 years to do my Ph.D.
and walking out of there and… my dissertation advisor, Jerry Desinctus - God rest her soul,
coming out and saying, “You passed.” In effect was an enormous relief and I was enormously
proud of it. It was really those achievements in your life where… a singular achievement
as far as I was concerned. I worked very hard for that and I’m very proud of it and it’s
one of those things where if I could work through this for five years, I could probably
tackle any significant challenge.