Innovation Nation Patrick McKenna 

I had no idea. Mr. McKenna, you'll likely never read nor know of this but you are an inspiration. I've never been diagnosed but notice some similarities in my behaviour and growing up. Congrats on absolutely destroying the naysayers.

Absolute WOW! Patrick McKenna' speech was well organized, had anecdotal stories, humor, drama, and reflected innovation with a call to action. Furthermore, the speech was engaging being informative, entertaining, persuasive, and inspirational. The speech was truly fantastic. Also, I liked the Patrick McKenna's quote "It's never to late to find out what makes you fantastic!" I appreciate Centre for Surgical Invention and Innovation for sharing the speech to the public.

My son has that, and now he is a writer/ illustrator. Never discourage their outlook for their future.

Helps explain why Hollywood and the Music industry are the way they are... I do appreciate Pat's wisdom of life when he said "Because I didn't know who I was I let other people define me." Thats something others should realize or take into consideration... Otherwise life eats you alive and spits you out...

awesome.. I heard every word long live Harold.. lol

Patrick: Des Moines is in Iowa. Loved you on RG.

YOU FILLED A GREAT PART OF MY LIFE AT THE TIME YOU WERE ON IN THE 90'S, THANKS A MILLION!!!

2:25 I hear Harold in the "y'know"

Hey Patrick, what a great talk, inspiring, well done. What if I told you that your ADHD and the success you turned it into was all thanks to a microscopic parasite in your brain. Without it you would have been just a nice normal frankly-kind-of-lazy non-tormented and average kid, the sort of well-behaved young man everyone wants their daughter to marry. It's 2020. Including me, you can count the number of people who actually understand this on just three hands but in 2050 it's going to be right there with the basic foundations of mental health and common knowledge. Quickest way to get a start on it is to search -- road rage parasite. That's right, it turns into rage if it is restricted, but so long as one is in a messy enough environment to be crazy-creative and active, then it's a blessing like it was for you, not just a curse. It ate your inhibitory neurotransmitters (gaba) so your head was full of go signals. It almost destroyed you but you turned it into an asset. I've been binge-watching the show lately, I'm probably over half-way thru 300 episodes. I picked up a sense along the way that you were far more than the Harold character. So I looked you up and wound up here. And thought you might like to know that it's a microscopic protozoa that made you fantastic. Yeah, sorry, now that I think about it, doesn't sound so great from that angle. Good to know though, right? You see, you were able to cope, others are not so lucky and wind up like Mike, for example. Or worse. All joking aside, it correlates with a lot of bad things including suicide. Scientists believe its antibodies in the bloodstream fade over time like its closest genetic cousin malaria. This means there are false negative tests, it flies under the radar. Sometimes it can't be detected, hides out in cysts safely behind the blood-brain barrier. But think of this, if we could just find some sort of organization capable of surgery, someone into invention and innovation, hmm, if such a group existed, they could develop a device to drill a tiny hole in one's head just large enough for a #40 needle and extract some fluid from the brain and test that, for certainty. And actually inject the cure too, to knock out Tg. That is, for those who wanted relief from the torment. Or for those who want to become brilliant comedic sensations, inject the parasite. Remember, as a great man once said, we're all in this together. -- garyha at thingsweirdandwonderful .com, anyone can feel free to write to me if you're interested in this PS The description here says "Actor Patrick Pic may be best known for his fifteen years ...". Is that a typo? Someone trying to tell us something? When I google "Patrick Pic", there are pictures of Patrick Star, the animated character, which is shaped exactly like toxoplasma, the parasite, and that show's creators says it evolved, kind of telling them what it would become. Almost as if toxo is aching to reveal itself to humanity. It is also known as a "mind control parasite", by the way.