Sean Atitsogbe, a 10-year-old Ghanaian-born American scientist commonly known as Sean the Science Kid, has caught the attention of the world, earning him an interview with CNN.
According to Sean, he has a lifelong love for learning, adding that around the age of 4 to 5, he wanted to start a YouTube channel.
Sean the Science Kid revealed he was about zero months when he started learning about the world right from the womb.
He asserted that in his mom’s womb, he was doing science as his mum’s belly was emitting a kinematic equation.
Speaking in an interview on the “Chasing Life” podcast with Dr Sanjay Gupta, Sean Atitsogbe stated, “From babywood till now, I have been learning and educating, and soaking up information from any time of media or source that I can find, because I have always wanted to learn”.
As kids enjoy playing video games, I enjoy learning; learning is my video game. I really just have a passion for it. Everything I have done so far is a passion project”.
The 10-year-old further revealed his dream to become a neurocardio surgeon.
Sean the Science Kid added, “I want to be a neurocardio surgeon, which can be defined as the combination of a brain and a heart surgeon. And I invented this word when I was 4 years old. When I was doing research on the human body or anatomy which was one of my favorite science subjects to study about I found out that the brain and the heart are connected in a loop where the brain has to tell the heart to pump blood and the heart pumps blood to the brain so the brain can tell the heart to pump blood, and it’s a loop.
So I thought, ‘If one is damaged, then what’s going to happen to this loop?’ So I decided to specialise my treatment in both of those,” he told CNN.
Sean also detailed that if he could change one thing about the brain, it would be to give it infinite storage.
He further dissected a brain to show his favourite part, the hippocampus, which is the section responsible for saving memories.
“I would make it so you remember anything and everything, and you wouldn’t forget. I could have it downsized, but you would have a pretty sick superpower,” he added.
Sean Atitsogbe also touched on the recent turmoil affecting lives across the globe.
According to Sean, he is pessimistic about the world’s future, following the widespread occurrence of crimes as evidence that the world is descending into chaos.
He cited the mass shootings in the United States and other parts of the world as alarming.
He stated, “The world is in a state of turmoil. We’re doomed. Everything happening now seems negative. As my mom and her prayer group say, every single day, there’s a new shooting. If you watch the news, you’ll see at least one shooting every day”.
“It feels like there’s a state of evil everywhere; people are doing unruly, unholy, psychotic things for no reason. What compels someone to kill another person? An old grandma is shopping for diapers for her grandson, and someone just walks in and starts shooting? There’s no reason. So, I’m not very optimistic about the world right now”, he said.
Meanwhile, Eunice Atitsogbe, Sean’s mother, has revealed that Sean was turned away by three schools.
In a post on Instagram, she stated, “After being turned away by three schools, we finally found Dr. Nadra Powell at HAEC, who immediately recognised Sean’s brilliance and welcomed us in. HAEC gave Sean the structure and support he needed to thrive.”
Also, Sean Atitsogbe’s YouTube channel now boasts 1.4 million followers.
Watch the interview below: