Skills and qualities

Stephen: When people want value for money for everything that they do, is to say well where is the use at the end of the day, will this be immediately a directly applicable to what, you know, to what I do and so it was interesting as someone who'd worked in the Arts to then go and do a technological scientific degree because the first thing we'd say well that's a lot of use and unless you completely change course, how will that be applicable.

It was and it has been amazingly applicable and there are levels to the practical benefits of what I've learned and how I've applied it back to my work. The general things of course, which any employer can understand, I've become more articulate. I've been able to organise my thoughts better, so these are the general things where if I went whatever I do, if I write, if I act, any kind of thing I do it would matter.

I'm more self-motivated, self disciplined by many, many degrees. My brain is now wired differently. This is the freaky thing. My wife said to me when I'd worked after a about a year of the course, she said, 'You're thinking differently'. I said, 'How do you mean?' She said, 'Well, you argue, meaning discuss, in a different way. You approach problems in a different way.