Thoughts on Yitang "Tom" Zhang Interview

I often find simple things beautiful. You are able to focus on an outstanding aspect of a single thing rather than multiple busy parts of a large thing. Yitang "Tom" Zhang shares these thought with me. When he was working on solving his problem he focused on that problem, taking breaks to do other intellectual things. Sometimes, especially in our modern world, we get overrun by responsibilities and  activities that we aren't able to fully enjoy them. Zhang fully enjoyed working on math. He thought about the current problem he was working on 10 hours a day and sat at desk devoted to solving it 5-6 hours a day. If we all could focus on a single thing, we could be much more productive in that area.
I also find the fact that he was not motivated in any way by the money for the fame very liberating. He wanted to work on the problem because that was where his heart was at, not because he could make money or have his name in news papers. On television we have people that are rich and famous with no talent, and yet, here is a man with loads of talent who could care less about those materialistic things. As a human race we often make our choices and decisions by how it will affect us in superficial ways.  Will this make me money? Will this make me pretty? Will this make other people like me? We should take a lesson from Zhang and do things for our enjoyment and not our superficial gain.