Breaking Through

Spent the last few weeks reading Breaking Through by Dr. Katalin Karikó and of the many wonderfully written anecdotes on science, friendship, resilience and more that I’m sure I’ll keep coming back to, it is a part of the epilogue that I am going to hold extra close..

“On an ordinary day on the streets of Szeged, as I walked home from a clinic feeling horribly ill, I had a flash of insight: No one would ever miss the contribution I didn’t make. No one would knock on my door and beg me to continue working. If I stopped, or if I pulled back my efforts one bit at a time until I was giving less than my full potential, the loss would go entirely unnoticed.

A world that’s missing an important contribution looks ordinary. It is the definition of the status quo.”