getting better isn't a hack or a trick or a one change that you need to make
getting better is a campaign it's a campaign it's a daily a weekly as an
hourly fight an incessant fight that doesn't stop against weakness and
against temptation and against laziness it's a campaign a discipline the
campaign of hard work and dedication it's waking up early and going to bed
late and grinding out every second in between every single day so you want to
get better you want to self-improve stop looking for a shortcut and go find your
alarm clock and find your discipline and find your guts and your passion and
your drive and find your will and then
and then you will find your freedom
you know what we complain about compared to what our grandparents and
great-grandparents talk about I don't know I mean it's really hard to complain
about theoretical issues compared to actual slavery compared to actual Great
Depression I love when kids are like the economy's bad I'm like you're an idiot
I'm like, do you understand the historical nature of where we live today and what's
going on again I don't want to dwell on it too much the Internet has changed
everything it is fundamentally created opportunity for everybody the problem is
people don't want to put in the work you know but if you really believe
passionately what you're doing just keep going keep pushing on
keep pushing on and until you either succeed or at least you realize that
it's just not going to happen and then if you
don't succeed pick yourself up and try again and ultimately
if you're that determined you will succeed in life and
then if you don't you'll have a hell of a lot of fun trying I want I want you all to stay
true to the most real most sincere most authentic parts of yourselves I want you
to ask those basic questions who do you want to be what inspires you how do you
want to give back and then I want you to take a deep breath and trust yourself to
chart your own course and make your mark on the world maybe it feels like you're
supposed to go to law school but what you really want to do is teach little
kids maybe your parents are expecting you to come back home after you graduate
but you're feeling a pull to travel the world
I want you to listen to those thoughts I want you to act with both your mind but
also your heart and no matter what path you choose I want you to make sure it's
you choosing it and not someone else are you making
decisions based on the financial rewards are you making decisions based on how
easy the work will be I mean I remember in college you know they would give you
this book where they all the students would rate the classes and they would
rate things like how easy the class was and how much they liked
the professor and you know the first year I picked all my classes based on it
workload and I picked everything a low workload you know and pretty bored
didn't work very hard which is fine but nothing was dynamic and nothing really
excited me and I thank goodness learned that and so the second year I picked all
my classes by professor rating regardless of the workload so every
class I had I had these dynamic amazing incredible human beings passing on their
knowledge and you were excited to work hard for them you know and so again what
the question is what if the filters were using and so if you're only chasing the
mighty dollar then you will have jobs that'll pay you a little more than the
last but are you enjoying yourself and I talked to a guy recently who was enough
he's in bad shape like he really hates his life and he's really depressed he
doesn't know what to do and so we were going through all his old jobs you know
and I said give me a job that you've loved and he hadn't. Every single job he's
chosen out of college he picked because of the money and if something
offered him more somewhere else he took it you know regardless and the
amazing thing is he plateaued because if you're only chasing the result if you're
only chasing the thing that makes it easy right then eventually you will get
bored or they'll get bored of you right and you plateau in other words chasing
the ol mighty dollar if that's your only thing it eventually flattens out whereas
if you're chasing the thing that excites you the human beings to be around the
work that excites you the stuff that you can get passionate
about you know the irony is is you'll actually make way way more you can never
perfect what we do there's no way I've never met anyone who goes that's
perfection I mean to an audience outside of your work people can think that
that's the only way they'd ever want to see that part played or that moment done
whatever but as an actor and this isn't mock humility I think it's just it just goes
for all art forms really the whole point is perfection is unachievable so it's that
constant pursuit of the unobtainable which is kind of magic really you know
and should keep us kind of motivated to try better you know it's
the Beckett thing you know fail again fail better
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