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So a quick introduction for our guest here.

Many of you already know Professor Bob Sutton.

He has been teaching here since 1983.

I hope that's right.

And that is actually before I was born.

Oh, that's already happening.

He has won numerous awards which are in the handout today, and he's a best-selling and prolific

author. He's written more than 90 articles and seven books. His background is quite interesting,

and he gave me permission to say this. I can say whatever you want. Are you sure?

Yeah, good. In high school, Say whatever you want. Are you sure? Yeah, good. In high school,

he had a 1.9 GPA, which is less than, is that right? No. Well, it was after my junior year.

Junior year. I raised it to 2.1 in my senior year. Pottery was very important in my grade point

average. I'm not joking. So before pottery is a 1.9.

That's correct.

Which is less than half of what many of the students here had, I believe, in high school.

Much less, yes.

And then, so he went to junior college.

He didn't quit on academics yet.

And he told me that what inspired him to kick it up a notch was that his father was getting excited

that he had such a low GPA in junior college as well. And because he was going to

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