List your childhood passions. When I was six years old, I was passionately interested in both comic books and Greek mythology. In high school and college, I took five years of French and spent some time in France (even had an office there with my first business). Right now I can’t remember a single word of French except for maybe oui. But I remember vividly almost every comic and book I read about Greek myths from when I was six—from the very first comic (the “legion of superheroes” had to go back in time and stay with Clark’s parents in Smallville) to every comic afterward. We only ever
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