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Charles Garfield Highlight
People don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.
About Charles
- When he was young, Russia launched Sputnik 1, America pushed kids into science and technology fields in response.
- Was working on the moon landing project-"a ticket to a career"-and decided he didn't want it.
- Didn't care as much about the project as he cared about the people that were working on it.
- Once it was clear that he loved studying people, he did everything he could to pursue it more, learn more.
- Says too many people follow "formulas" that pretend to be correct; doesn't think it's that crazy that he went from science to psychology.
- Joined the staff at the University of California, San Francisco's cancer institute.
- Most proud of the first thing he did: walked up and down a floor of dying patients and realized they were lonely and scared.
- Founded Shanti project, which had volunteers work with seriously ill and dying patients, the first of its kind.
