Over time, doing research on identity has helped Adam Sawatsky realize that if he wasn’t a medical education researcher, he would be a high school biology teacher or starting his own micro-brewing company. In this episode, Sayra and Adam sit down to talk about his love of reading (passed down from his parents and now onto his son)s, how the time spent learning about qualitative research helped him move forward in his career (and made him wish he could go back to learn more in the social sciences), and what everyone has wanted to know - the meaning behind the bow ties.