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The Art of Manliness

It's Never Too Late to Achieve Your Dream, Receive Recognition, or Make Your Mark

The Art of Manliness

The Art of Manliness

Society & Culture, Education, Philosophy

4.714.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2024

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

As you get older, you can start to feel like you'll never achieve your dream or receive recognition for your contributions to a field, or that your best work is behind you. Mo Rocca has compiled stories that demonstrate that you shouldn't give up hope, and that no matter your age, the best may yet be to come. Mo is a humorist, journalist, and the co-author of Roctogenarians: Late in Life Debuts, Comebacks, and Triumphs. Today on the show, Mo shares the stories and lessons of entrepreneurs, artists, actors, and more who achieved greatness or adulation in their twilight years or had a new spurt of creativity when they thought the well had run dry, including KFC founder Colonel Sanders, the artist Matisse, a couple of guys who didn't receive their first war wounds until they were old enough to qualify for the senior citizen discount at Denny's, and even a virile 90-year-old tortoise.

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0:00.0

Brett McKay here and welcome to another edition of the Art of Manliness Podcast.

0:11.0

As you get older you can start to feel like you'll never achieve your

0:14.3

dream or receive recognition for your contributions to a field or that your best work is behind

0:19.3

you. Mo Raka has compiled stories that demonstrate that you shouldn't give up hope.

0:23.4

And then no matter your age, the best may yet be to come.

0:26.8

Mo is a humorist, journalist, and the co-author of

0:30.0

Rochtogenarians, late in life debuts, comebacks, and triumphs.

0:34.7

Tain the show, Mo shares the stories and lessons of entrepreneurs, artist, actors,

0:39.2

and more who achieved greatness or adulation in their twilight years

0:42.6

or had a new spread of creativity when they thought the well had run dry,

0:46.2

including KFC founder Colonel Sanders,

0:48.2

the artist Matisse, a couple of guys who didn't receive their first war

0:51.9

ruins until they were old enough to qualify for the senior citizen discount at Dinnies and even a virile 90 year old tortoise.

0:58.0

After the show is over, check at our show notes at Awimp.

1:00.0

A.wimp. I.S. slash late in life. All right, MoRaca, welcome to the show.

1:15.0

Thank you for having me, Brett.

1:18.0

So you got a new book out called Rockagenarian's,

1:20.8

late in life debuts, comebacks, and triumphs.

1:23.9

So you're talking about people who, in their elder years,

1:28.8

did some really cool stuff.

1:30.2

And you talk about in the beginning of the book

1:31.6

that you had an interview with Chance the rapper that

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