“If I don’t devote a hundred percent of my attention to something I’m likely to abandon it halfway through. It’s my brain, right? My brain is like that. I can’t focus and I can’t focus and I can’t focus and then suddenly, bam, there’s something I care enough about to really give it my time and energy, and for that period of time, it’s the only thing I care about. Almost the only thing in the world. Meals, conversations, work. It means I have to warn people, don’t try to tell me two things at once, even though, when I’m the one doing the talking, I can keep almost an infinite”