What does the American dream mean to you, doctor?

I tell you, to me, it means being able to touch a life,

being able to wake up every day and knowing that I have an ability and a sort of an opportunity to help someone.

The fellow Kenyonesi Nojosa, Dr. Q Neurosurgeon,

in front of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, what an honor it is, Dr. Q, as everyone refers to you as,

to be able to have an opportunity to chat with you.

Jose, the honor is my...

Dr. Q, you have a life story that really distills the American dream and what it means to be able to achieve your dreams in such an extraordinary way.

I mean, doctor, let's talk about your upbringing.

You know, it was humble.

It was very humble beginnings in my life.

I grew up in a small little town outside of Mexico, Mexico.

Mexico is in the state of Baja California.

It's extraordinarily hot in the summertime, really no running water, no electricity.

But you know what we heard Jose was an amazing ability to dream.

How do you go from that to dream big dreams?

What were you basing those dreams on?

Right here, right in your brain, in my brain, 100 billion neurons firing all the time, making about 160 trillion synapses.

Right now, as we were talking, there are more synapses ongoing in your brain than there are stars in the galaxy.

So we're all, you know, born with this extraordinary ability to dream.

You know, when I grew up in Mexico, very poor.

We never had access to healthcare.

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