And just like that P.I. from Zagreb who couldn't find whatever it was that you were looking for, some FBI training exercise isn't going to fix it, either.

This is Maezza, and when she was seven years old, she came home from school one day, and like I do every single day, I asked her, "What did you do today?"

Just the look on her face came over -- now mind you this is after a month of -- this is Black History Month, right?

All right, so the guy said electronics. I don't remember anything else. In fact, I don't remember anything that my sixth grade teacher said all year, but I remember electronics.

I think the technicities of creativity can be taught and shared, and I think you can find out things about your own personal physical signature, your own cognitive habits, and use that as a point of departure to misbehave beautifully.

But there is one magnificent example for them to take their cue from, and that's a brilliant U.S. lieutenant colonel called Chris Hughes.

I. I. Rabi, a Nobel laureate, said that when he was growing up in New York, all of his friends' parents would ask them "What did you learn in school?" at the end of a day.

Largely because of that visit, I came to understand that, contrary to what I was being told in school, the worlds of art and design were not, in fact, incompatible with science and engineering.

(Laughter) Which, if I remember my high school Spanish, means something like, "Enough already, make it stop!"

But then you recall learning that the Sun moves around the center of the Milky Way galaxy, and the Milky Way moves within the Local Group of galaxies, and the Local Group moves within the Virgo Cluster, and the Virgo Cluster moves within...

Among the plethora of life here on Earth, there's a subset of organisms known as extremophiles, or lovers of extreme living conditions, if you'll remember from high school biology.

We worked with Bruce Nizeye, a brilliant engineer, and he thought about construction differently than I had been taught in school.

Building an Alzheimer's-resistant brain means learning to speak Italian, meeting new friends, reading a book, or listening to a great TED Talk.

It was mostly learning how to ride horses, shooting a bow and arrow, live music at night, free food and alcohol, also some air-gun target practice using mainstream politicians' faces as targets.

Same for gravity, two concepts, so it's -- which is quite humbling, as a, you know, if you're a teacher, and you look before and after, that's quite worrying. They do worse in tests afterwards, after the teaching.

They remembered how even the wimpy Tecciztecatl had eventually managed to emulate Nanahuatl's bravery.