Enjoyed the Caltech Y Friends dinner this evening at the Athenaeum which included Dr. Spiros Michalakis' presentation - Being Number One. After attending the top high school in Greece, graduating from one of the top universities in the world, solving one of the hardest problems in science and moving to Caltech as a postdoc, Spiros had a crisis of faith. He lost faith in himself. What built him back up was not the pursuit of a Nobel Prize. It was outreach to kids in East LA.
