Hi everybody this is Scott said I wasn't planning on doing a sad truth today but I was

scrolling through my Twitter account and I saw a tweet from Brian Keating who's a professor of physics at UCSD.

He's been on my show and I've been on his great guy and so kudos to him for alerting me to this

incredible story which I will now include in my forthcoming book.

Let me give you the context.

Such an incredible story.

So in the book I talk about a doctoral student at my university at Concord University who graduated with his PhD in his early 90s. I think he still is probably the oldest PhD recipient.

And you know, so I had a whole bunch of stories about how it's never too late to go back and pursue your dreams and being persistent and so on.

And now I can add this additional story to it. I'm going to read you, I didn't even read the whole article, I'm just going to be

discovering it here with you when I found out about the story I was so moved by it. So this is absolutely

incredible and this hopefully should serve as a lesson for everybody who's saying,

you know, am I too old to go back to school, am I too old to pursue my dreams?

Watch this story and then tell me if you're too old. And of course, as I said, this story and several other truly inspiring stories will be covered in great length in my forthcoming book

when I talk about persistence and grit and focusing on a goal and so on.

So here we go. so this is in Brown

University's physics news Brown physics student Manfred Steiner earns PhD at 89.

Okay, you ready?

So here we go.

Sorry, bear with me.

Okay, at the age of 89,

Memfrid Steiner is finally what he always wanted to be a physicist.

After successfully defending his dissertation, Steiner will receive his PhD from Brown University

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