BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) -- For Apple CEO Tim Cook, he knows his time leading the worldwide technology company will come to an end one day, but he wouldn't call it retirement, at least in the "traditional definition of it."
Cook, a Mobile native who has led the company since 2011, was recently asked about what his life would look like after Apple, as well as his childhood in Alabama and his hobbies, during a recent episode of the podcast "Table Manners with Jessie and Lennie Ware."
The podcast, which is hosted by UK pop singer Jessie Ware and her mother, Lennie, features a different guest each week, gathered around the kitchen table and eating different foods they love. On this particular episode, which was released Tuesday, Cook was in the United Kingdom on a trip to visit UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer, as well as King Charles and Queen Camilla.
During the episode, Lennie Ware asked Cook if he ever thought he would retire one day. Cook, who started at Apple in 1998 before becoming CEO, said he would inevitably retire some day, but not in the way people would think.
"I don't see ring at home doing nothing and not intellectually stimulated and thinking about how tomorrow can be better than today," Cook said in comments first reported by Business Insider. "I think I'll always be wired in that kind of way and want to work because I was working when I was 11 or 12."
Cook, who graduated from Auburn University with a degree in industrial engineering in 1982, went on to talk about the importance of continuing to challenge yourself in life, whether it be with work or in your personal life.
"You want to be pushed a bit, you want to be uncomfortable a bit, maybe not as much as today, but you want to be pushed and I think I'll always want to be pushed," he said.
The full episode can be listened to here.