Yes, when I got that lecture, it made me think about my own life and made me wonder if I was just 'exploiting a local maxima' or if I was really on the right pa

Yes, when I got that lecture, it made me think about my own life and made me wonder if I was just 'exploiting a local maxima' or if I was really on the right path for optimality. I figured that it was almost certainly sub-optimal, but without having many thousands and thousands of retries like an agent, what can you do? My path to where I am today also has many little 'chances' where my exploration lead my in a completely different path that I wouldn't have been on today. Like when I was a young teenager, and discovered a forum about a video game that I liked. From there, I picked up video game level design because I was inspired by a couple of the posters. After a while of that, I discovered game scripting, which lead me to pick up programming. When I entered Sixth Form at school, I picked up Electronics on a whim and ended up realising that I really liked assembly language. Things grew from there until I got to where I am today.