Here's something that drives me crazy.

Dreams can make me crazy.

Well the act of drawing airplanes led me to, when I had the opportunity to choose a course in school, led me to sign up for aeronautical engineering.

He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

My uncles, my father s younger brothers, led me by the hand.

And so this basically led me to a subject called cymatics.

India s democracy can be maddening in its resistance to economic change.

And it kind of led me to astrobiology, which is the study of possible life in the universe.

Great news. It drives me nuts that most people don't seem to know this news.

But such a world will be possible only if people everywhere rise up and challenge the nuclear madness.

This fascination led me to submerge myself in art, study neuroscience and later to become a psychotherapist.

And one thing led to another, and I ended up having a desk in ?What If! in New York, when I started Independent Diplomat.

In the '90s, my interest and passion for transitional art forms led me to a new form, which came from a squatter camp outside Durban.

Albert Einstein s definition of insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results could be applied to America s Iran policy.

And So I was getting pretty nervous and, you know, I didn't know that Chris sits on the stage, and that's more nerve wracking.

And that kind of passion drove me into very serious play, a kind of play I could never do now because I'm too well educated.

And so if I were going to give you the ending of this story, it would go something like this And that's what ultimately led me to speaking to you here at TED about story.

This experience and this training lead me to get a wonderful job with the Wildlife Conservation Society, which works to save wildlife and wild places all over the world.

There is no different in blood nor genes between us and if I were to dwell on the injustice of that, it would drive me insane, so instead of that happening, I m writing it down and performing it.

And that feeling also led me to a pilgrimage of sorts, to go literally to the ends of the earth to see telescopes, detectors, instruments that people are building, or have built, in order to probe the cosmos in greater and greater detail.

So that's what led me to Alzheimer's. I started reading about Alzheimer's and tried to familiarize myself with the research, and at the same time when I was in the I was reading in the medical library one day, and I read this article about something called purine derivatives.

Indeed, it was precisely this logic that me led to give a very dark forecast in a widely covered speech in Singapore on August 19, 2008, a month before Lehman Brothers failed.

And one of the things that is driving me really crazy, as I travel around and I do autism meetings, is I'm seeing a lot of smart, geeky, nerdy kids, and they just aren't very social, and nobody's working on developing their interest in something like science.

Having listened for 20 years to people unfortunate enough to be labeled schizophrenic, considered to be the most extreme form of mental illness, and having subsequently researched the causes of hallucinations and delusions for ten years, I believe that the public understands madness better than we experts.

That s the thinking behind one of my favorite customer care proposals that lost luggage should get its own air miles thus making the customer feel that the airline acknowledges the error and is suffering along with the customer.

Having listened for 20 years to people unfortunate enough to be labeled schizophrenic, considered to be the most extreme form of mental illness, and having subsequently researched the causes of hallucinations and delusions for ten years, I believe that the public understands madness better than we experts.