I'm Oprah Winfrey. Welcome to Super Soul Conversations, the podcast. I believe that one of the most

valuable gifts you can give yourself is time. Taking time to be more fully present. Your journey

to become more inspired and connected to the deeper world around us starts right now.

Brian Grazer is the visionary producer behind some of the greatest films and television shows of our time,

from Splash to A Beautiful Mind, to Apollo 13, to his latest breakout hit, Empire.

His work has been nominated for 43 Academy Awards and 149 Emmys. Brian says he was curious from an early age and as the oldest of three, growing up in

Sherman Oaks, California, he struggled in school but says he was endlessly fascinated by the world around him.

He's written a book, and it's called A Curious Mind, the Secret to a Bigger Life.

Brian says, pursuing what he calls curiosity conversations has been key to his happiness and success.

We all know that your Academy Award-winning producer behind all these phenomenal films

that we have come to love.

You've produced television in films, and now you're adding author.

Was that a little scary to add author to your resume?

Well, it was scary.

First, I thought it might be easy. And then it got to the point where it was really hard.

Just telling the story, you know, trying to remember the stories of 25 years and the conversations

that I did every two weeks and trying to synthesize it and turn it into tiny stories that people

are going to want to read and

that have the message of curiosity this is a hard thing to do and i'll have to say yeah i have to

say that when i first started reading it i was like oh what's this going to be how are you going to

it's so esoteric curiosity yes but i would have to say i had a mind shift wow i had a mind shift, which I'm sure that's what you're

after, right? I had a mind shift while reading it because I was like, how can the claim that

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