Effective research presupposes a good life.
I don't think you can do any work if you don't have a decent and dignified life.
Unfortunately, this is neither obvious nor that easy.
Indeed, if you look at humankind, I would say that it is almost a privilege.
So I feel lucky enough.
I believe I am a curious and eclective person and I cultivate many (in my view) interests.
I love art (the Renaissance, Caravaggio, and Van Gogh among my favorites), literature (Jorge Luis Borges, Dostoevskij, Philip Roth, and Eugenio Montale), and cinema (from Sergio Leone to Tarantino, from Ken Loach to Kubrick).
I have always been interested in history and politics.
Today perhaps (also due to the ecological and climatic crisis) the duty to think about the future is even more necessary. Thus, motivated above all by reasons of sustainability, I have chosen, for a year now, to be a vegetarian.
I am a lover of good wine. I would say that I did a lot of research "in the field".
I love RPGs and board games.
Last, but not least, I love to laugh, fiercely.
I like irony and sarcasm when they don't become a way to exclude others (but rather when it produces the opposite).
I enjoy playing jokes, with friends or on friends.