I see your point. He is concerned with what kind of legacy he will leave. My post was intended to address just this, your chances for a Nobel price are bigger

I see your point. He is concerned with what kind of legacy he will leave. My post was intended to address just this, your chances for a Nobel price are bigger if you are actively working on curing cancer. Yet, winning a Nobel price is not a guarantee to do good to the world (Arafat). You never know how your tools will be used, therefor being the "king of advice animals" (love that one) might be service equally important to the world. If you like your job and you are good at it your legacy might be invisible (the soap guy) but possible essential for our future. We have no way of knowing.