1360 | Jim Carrey: “You Can Fail at What You Don’t Want, So You Might as Well Take a Chance on Doing What You Love.”
The Quote of the Day Show | Daily Motivational Talks
Sean Croxton
4.8 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 24 February 2022
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
On today’s episode, Jim Carrey encourages you to take a chance on your dream. He reminds you that being true to yourself will bring the greatest rewards. Risk being seen, he says. The only way to truly get what we want is to decide what we want, ask for what we want, and work for it each and every day.
Source: Jim Carrey at MIU: Commencement Address at the 2014 Graduation
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| 0:00.0 | Yo, today's QOD is you can fail at what you don't want. |
| 0:05.0 | So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love. |
| 0:08.8 | Here we go. |
| 0:34.7 | Welcome back to the QOD of the day show. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm your host Sean Croxton, a Sean Croxton.com. |
| 0:39.5 | We got Jim Carey on the show today and he's going to encourage you to take a chance on your |
| 0:45.9 | dream to be who you really are to look for the work that really lights you up. |
| 0:52.5 | We talked about this last week with less brown about how people, you know, a lot of people |
| 0:58.4 | die on Mondays because they're going to jobs that they hate, you know, Sunday night. |
| 1:02.7 | They're like, oh, I got to go to that job. |
| 1:04.9 | There are so many people failing right now doing what they don't want to do. |
| 1:10.2 | And like Jim says here, why don't you just take a chance on really doing what you love |
| 1:15.2 | because you can fail at that too, but you can also win. |
| 1:18.8 | Jim Carey is coming up. |
| 1:28.7 | You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness, a new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities. |
| 1:37.1 | On the other side of that door, there's a world starving for new ideas, new leadership. |
| 1:41.5 | I've been out there for 30 years. |
| 1:44.3 | She's a wildcat. |
| 1:45.3 | She'll rub up against your leg and pour until you pick up and start petting her and then |
| 1:51.3 | add a nowhere she'll, what in the face? |
| 1:58.0 | It can be rough out there, but that's okay because there's soft, survised cream with sprinkles. |
| 2:08.3 | I guess that's what I'm really trying to say here today. |
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