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David Talcott

Oct 13, 2026

5:35
Mm-hmm.
5:35
You know, you, you can't do more than 100%, and if you try, it usually ends badly.
5:40
And when you, when you have a family, when you get married, you have to split up your time and effort.
5:44
When you have a kid, that becomes your world.
5:46
Your 100% starts to get spread thinner and thinner.
5:49
And so with that, you know, the time to innovate, the time to just concoct new ideas, you know, the, the long nights designing labs or the long nights making amazing photocopies, you know, you just don't have that time or energy without really having some consequences at home.
6:06
Because you have your attention split, you're, you're not able to, to really be as innovative as you, as you were when you're a younger teacher.
6:34
But what pushed you, uh, in life specifically to come here and teach at this school?

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