Doesn't matter how menial may be the job that you're doing today. If you have dreams, that will turn into something positive in the future.

I'm just a regular guy. I want people to realize that I embody the true American dream. I work hard. I went to school.

As a researcher at US Berkeley I used to go into the brains of small, little animals and study the way that brains were connected and how little did I know that one day that was going to be my future - exploring the universe of the brain and hold it in between my hands and look at cells migrating.

The same skills that I used as a welder, as a migrant farm worker, are similar skills that I'm using as a brain surgeon.

If you look at some of the clips of me in the operating room, I sit in the chair, I control the microscope with my mouth, I connect, my hands are always working in the brain, my feet are controlling everything.

I'm not a politician, I'm not an economist. I'm just a simple Brian surgeon and a scientist who's trying to do my best every day.

I hear hate. I hear people who clearly don't have a great understanding of the American dream. That the American dream is based on hard work and dedication, determination, resilience, excitement, mentorship, help and love for each other.