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🗓️ 3 May 2022
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0:00.0 | Following that passion is very difficult because other people say to you, you're stupid. |
0:05.7 | You can't do that. You want to achieve. That's beyond you. And you have to know in yourself early on. |
0:14.0 | I want to do this. I'm going to do this. |
0:18.2 | This is the flavor. I am so excited because I have looked up to this man for years. He's an |
0:24.8 | incredible actor, comedian, author, executive producer and director, the incredible, |
0:30.5 | incomparable Henry Winkler. Welcome to the playbook. |
0:33.7 | I'm so excited to be here. I just want to say you didn't have to look up that far. I'm only |
0:38.0 | five, six and a half. And I'm right with you. I think I'm five, six and three quarters. |
0:42.6 | So you and I are of equal height at the very least. Absolutely. But anyway, |
0:48.7 | it's such a pleasure because there's so much that you've done in your career. But the thing |
0:53.2 | that I look up to most that I think really is indicative of who you are is how much you've given |
0:59.2 | back. And I'll tell you something. Let me just say right now, what I figured out in my life, |
1:06.3 | and I knew this kind of early when the celebrity parts started in 75, 74. |
1:16.5 | If you take everything and you don't give back, you will explode. |
1:24.8 | I love it. It will. It's like a nuclear waste that's in an oil can, you know, and |
1:34.5 | that the top is sealed. It will eventually corrode and see right out of you. |
1:42.6 | And looking back, you know, before your career, you know, everyone deals with the number one |
1:51.4 | judgment in their lives, which is their parents and our parents, especially as we're older, |
1:55.6 | expectations of us, college careers, et cetera. And yet, you have some similarities. I've been |
2:02.0 | blessed to do over 1100 of these interviews with the greatest celebrities, athletes, entertainers, |
2:06.9 | millionaires, billionaires entrepreneurs. It seems to me, though, that there's always a conflict |
2:12.3 | between greatness or this spirit of excellence in our parents' expectations, who ironically |
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