Born as Niklas Boström in 1973 in Helsingborg, Sweden,[7] he disliked school at a young age and spent his last year of high school learning from home. He was interested in a wide variety of academic areas, including anthropology, art, literature, and science.[1] He received a B.A. degree from the University of Gothenburg in 1994.[8] He then earned an M.A. degree in philosophy and physics from Stoc

