Good morning and welcome to the increase from impact podcasts.

I'm Justin Sua, episode 1,854.

Today I want to read an excerpt from a newsletter that I get from Billy Oppenheimer.

It's called Six at Six and this is about Matt Damon and Ben Affleck and they tell the

story about getting into acting as little kids.

Here's a story.

Quote, Matt Damon was asked if he would let his kids pursue acting careers.

To answer, he provided some context, Damon and Ben Affleck were neighbors growing up.

They both knew at an early age that they wanted to be actors and not only did their own parents

tell them not to do it, Damon said but each other's parents told them not to do it.

We were told explicitly, don't do it, Damon said.

Ben's mom told me, don't do it.

You know what I mean?

So I do think, Damon says to answer the original question, if you're really meant to do it,

it doesn't matter what anybody says, close quote.

So once again, I just want to reiterate, Matt Damon was asked if he would let his kids

pursue acting careers and he says, if you're really meant to do it, it doesn't matter what

anybody says.

I love that because a lot of times when we want to achieve something and pursue something

that's difficult, that might be outside of a conventional wisdom where the odds are

completely against you, we look for permission.

We want to receive permission from people that, hey, it's okay, we can do it.

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