Tetragrammaton

Tetragrammaton

Tetraget about getting somewhere.

Not a lot about why or what you should do when you get there,

or the meaning and import of that,

but not a whole lot about sitting in it, whatever it is.

After growing up with ambition, how is success different than you imagined it?

It's a great question, and I've been asked to give the commencement speech of my alma mater for

years, and I've always turned it down because I'm kind of terrified.

Firstly, knowing the kind of amount of time that I'd want to spend thinking and doing it right and all of that.

But also, there's so much good advice and there's so much bad advice,

but really at the end of the day, what you're sitting with are your choices,

and you're going to have to live by them.

And it's your feeling in the moment of what that choice feels like in your soul i've

contemplated the title of it i know the title of which is beware ambition is ambition is a

wonderful thing but i think when you're a child you take so much on of what your parents and society and cultures

told you the shoulds. Not a lot is invested into, well, what does it make you feel like?

Does it making you feel like doing this thing? So I think to your question specifically,

certainly now I'm turning 44 this year and in that midlife space really investigating the source of my ambition.

The fuel that is fueling that fire.

Is it a healthy fuel? Is it a fuel that serves me? And that has been quite profound, I think. Tell me about your parents a little bit. My parents, I've been together

for 50, almost 60 years. I'm married for 56, maybe. My mother grew up here in Beverly Hills. Her mother was a film

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