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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.09,0:00:06.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to discuss with you this afternoon
Dialogue: 0,0:00:06.00,0:00:10.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why you're going to fail to have a great career. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:10.01,0:00:14.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm an economist. I do dismal.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.09,0:00:19.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,End of the day, it's ready for dismal remarks.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:19.04,0:00:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I only want to talk to those of you who want a great career.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.02,0:00:24.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know some of you have already decided
Dialogue: 0,0:00:24.10,0:00:27.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you want a good career.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.01,0:00:29.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're going to fail, too — (Laughter) —
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.05,0:00:32.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because — Goodness, you're all cheery about failing. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:32.06,0:00:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Canadian group, undoubtedly. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:38.02,0:00:40.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Those trying to have good careers are going to fail,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:40.07,0:00:44.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because, really, good jobs are now disappearing.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:44.04,0:00:47.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There are great jobs and great careers,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.07,0:00:51.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then there are the high-workload, high-stress,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.04,0:00:54.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,bloodsucking, soul-destroying kinds of jobs,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.08,0:00:56.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and practically nothing in between.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:56.02,0:00:58.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So the people looking for good jobs are going to fail.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.05,0:01:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to talk about those looking for great jobs, great
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.05,0:01:05.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,careers, and why you're going to, why you're going to fail.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:05.05,0:01:11.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,First reason is that no matter how many times people tell you,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:11.08,0:01:15.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If you want a great career, you have to pursue your passion,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:15.03,0:01:18.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you have to pursue your dreams, you have to pursue,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:18.03,0:01:21.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the greatest fascination in your life,"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:21.05,0:01:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you hear it again and again and then you decide
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.08,0:01:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not to do it. It doesn't matter how many times you download
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.09,0:01:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Steven J.'s Stanford commencement address,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.01,0:01:35.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you still look at it and decide not to do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.04,0:01:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not quite sure why you decide not to do it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:37.08,0:01:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're too lazy to do it. It's too hard.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.08,0:01:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're afraid if you look for your passion and don't find it,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.03,0:01:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you'll feel like you're an idiot, so then you make excuses
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.04,0:01:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about why you're not going to look for your passion.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.04,0:01:49.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And they are excuses, ladies and gentlemen.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:49.10,0:01:52.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're going to go through a whole long list, your creativity,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:52.08,0:01:55.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and thinking of excuses not to do what you really
Dialogue: 0,0:01:55.07,0:01:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,need to do if you want to have a great career.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.06,0:02:04.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, for example, one of your great excuses is,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:04.07,0:02:09.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, great careers are really and truly, for most people,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.07,0:02:13.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just a matter of luck, so I'm going to stand around,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:13.02,0:02:15.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm going to try to be lucky, and if I'm lucky,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:15.09,0:02:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'll have a great career. If not, I'll have a good career."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:18.08,0:02:22.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But a good career is an impossibility, so that's not going to work.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.03,0:02:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Then, your other excuse is, "Yes, there are special people
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.02,0:02:30.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who pursue their passions, but they are geniuses.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.02,0:02:33.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They are Steven J. I'm not a genius.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.04,0:02:36.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was five, I thought I was a genius,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.00,0:02:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but my professors have beaten that idea
Dialogue: 0,0:02:38.00,0:02:41.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,out of my head long since." (Laughter) Mm?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:41.02,0:02:45.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"And now I know I am completely competent."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.08,0:02:48.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, you see, if this was 1950,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.05,0:02:51.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,being completely competent,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:51.02,0:02:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that would have given you a great career.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.04,0:02:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But guess what? This is almost 2012, and saying
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.05,0:03:01.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the world, "I am totally, completely competent,"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.06,0:03:05.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is damning yourself with the faintest of praise.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:05.08,0:03:08.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then, of course, another excuse:
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.02,0:03:11.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, I would do this, I would do this, but, but,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:11.06,0:03:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,well, after all, I'm not weird.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.10,0:03:18.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everybody knows that people who pursue their passions
Dialogue: 0,0:03:18.05,0:03:23.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are somewhat obsessive. A little strange? Mm? Mm? Okay?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.03,0:03:26.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, a fine line between madness and genius.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:26.05,0:03:30.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not weird. I've read Steven J.'s biography.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:30.10,0:03:34.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh my goodness. I am not that person. I am nice.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:34.05,0:03:37.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am normal. I'm a nice, normal person,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:37.05,0:03:39.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and nice, normal people
Dialogue: 0,0:03:39.06,0:03:43.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,don't have passion.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:43.03,0:03:46.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ah. But I still want a great career.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:46.01,0:03:48.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm not prepared to pursue my passion, so I know
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.04,0:03:51.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what I'm going to do, because I have, I have a solution,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.01,0:03:53.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a strategy.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:53.01,0:03:55.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's the one Mommy and Daddy told me about.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:55.03,0:03:58.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Mommy and Daddy told me that if I worked hard,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:58.05,0:04:02.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'd have a good career. So, if you work hard
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.01,0:04:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and have a good career, if you work really, really, really hard,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.03,0:04:07.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you'll have a great career. Doesn't that, like,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:07.05,0:04:09.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,mathematically make sense?"
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.01,0:04:10.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hmm. Not. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:04:10.06,0:04:13.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you've managed to talk yourself into that.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:13.04,0:04:15.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what? Here's a little secret.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:15.04,0:04:18.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You want to work? You want to work really, really, really hard?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:18.06,0:04:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what? You'll succeed. The world will give you
Dialogue: 0,0:04:20.07,0:04:25.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the opportunity to work really, really, really, really hard,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:25.06,0:04:30.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but are you so sure that that's going to give you
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.03,0:04:34.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a great career when all the evidence is to the contrary?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:34.06,0:04:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's assume, let's deal with those of you
Dialogue: 0,0:04:38.00,0:04:40.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who are trying to find your passion.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:40.02,0:04:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You actually understand that you really had better do it,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.04,0:04:46.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,never mind the excuses. You're trying to find your passion,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.08,0:04:49.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're so happy.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.09,0:04:52.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You found something you're interested in.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.02,0:04:55.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have an interest! I have an interest! You tell me.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.02,0:04:57.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, "I have an interest!" I say, "That's wonderful!
Dialogue: 0,0:04:57.05,0:05:00.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what, what are you trying to tell me? That you — "
Dialogue: 0,0:05:00.06,0:05:02.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, I have an interest."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.02,0:05:03.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I say, "Do you have passion?"
Dialogue: 0,0:05:03.06,0:05:06.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I have an interest," you say.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:06.01,0:05:07.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your interest is compared to what?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.09,0:05:10.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Well, I'm interested in this."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:10.04,0:05:13.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what about the rest of humanity's activities?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:13.10,0:05:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I'm not interested in them."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:15.10,0:05:17.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You've looked at them all, have you?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.10,0:05:20.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"No. Not exactly."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:20.07,0:05:23.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Passion is your greatest love.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.04,0:05:28.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Passion is the thing that will help you create
Dialogue: 0,0:05:28.03,0:05:30.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the highest expression of your talent.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:30.07,0:05:33.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Passion, interest -- it's not the same thing.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:33.02,0:05:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Are you really going to go to your sweetie and say,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:35.06,0:05:42.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Marry me! You're interesting." (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.00,0:05:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Won't happen. Won't happen, and you will die alone. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.03,0:05:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What you want, what you want, what you want,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.08,0:05:54.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is passion. It is beyond interest.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:54.04,0:05:57.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You need 20 interests, and then one of them,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.09,0:06:00.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,one of them might grab you, one of them might engage you
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.10,0:06:03.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more than anything else, and then you may have found
Dialogue: 0,0:06:03.05,0:06:07.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,your greatest love in comparison to all the other things
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.06,0:06:10.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that interest you, and that's what passion is.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:10.10,0:06:14.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I have a friend, proposed to his sweetie.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:14.00,0:06:16.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He was an economically rational person.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:16.10,0:06:20.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He said to his sweetie, "Let us marry.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:20.06,0:06:23.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let us merge our interests."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.06,0:06:25.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:25.05,0:06:27.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes he did.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:27.04,0:06:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I love you truly," he said. "I love you deeply. I love you
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.08,0:06:35.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,more than any other woman I've ever encountered.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:35.03,0:06:39.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I love you more than Mary, Jane, Susie, Penelope,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.08,0:06:41.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Ingrid, Gertrude, Gretel --
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.08,0:06:44.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was on a German exchange program then." (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.02,0:06:47.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I love you more than — "
Dialogue: 0,0:06:47.00,0:06:53.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All right! She left the room halfway through his enumeration
Dialogue: 0,0:06:53.04,0:06:55.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of his love for her.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:55.04,0:06:58.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,After he got over his surprise at being, you know,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:58.02,0:07:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turned down, he concluded he'd had a narrow escape
Dialogue: 0,0:07:03.08,0:07:07.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from marrying an irrational person,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:07.06,0:07:09.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,although he did make a note to himself that the next time
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.08,0:07:13.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he proposed, it was perhaps not necessary to enumerate
Dialogue: 0,0:07:13.10,0:07:19.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,all of the women he had auditioned for the part. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:07:19.09,0:07:23.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the point stands. You must look for alternatives
Dialogue: 0,0:07:23.02,0:07:24.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so that you find your destiny,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:24.09,0:07:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or are you afraid of the word "destiny"?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:27.08,0:07:30.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does the word "destiny" scare you?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.06,0:07:32.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's what we're talking about, and if you don't find
Dialogue: 0,0:07:32.08,0:07:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the highest expression of your talent, if you settle
Dialogue: 0,0:07:35.06,0:07:38.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for "interesting," what the hell ever that means,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.02,0:07:41.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you know what will happen at the end of your long life?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:41.04,0:07:44.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your friends and family will be gathered in the cemetery,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:44.06,0:07:47.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and there, beside your gravesite will be a tombstone,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.09,0:07:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and inscribed on that tombstone, it will say,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.08,0:07:57.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Here lies a distinguished engineer who invented Velcro."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:57.09,0:08:02.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what that tombstone should have said,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:02.05,0:08:05.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in an alternative lifetime,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:05.03,0:08:08.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what it should have said if it was your highest expression of
Dialogue: 0,0:08:08.10,0:08:14.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,talent, was, "Here lies the last Nobel Laureate in Physics,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:14.03,0:08:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who formulated the Grand Unified Field Theory
Dialogue: 0,0:08:17.06,0:08:21.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and demonstrated the practicality of warp drive."
Dialogue: 0,0:08:21.04,0:08:23.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.08,0:08:27.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Velcro, indeed. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:08:27.08,0:08:31.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One was a great career.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.07,0:08:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One was a missed opportunity.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:35.07,0:08:37.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then, there are some of you,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:37.07,0:08:41.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in spite of all these excuses, you will find,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:41.03,0:08:45.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you will find your passion,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:45.00,0:08:48.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you'll still fail.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.03,0:08:51.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're going to fail, because,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.07,0:08:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you're not going to do it,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:54.07,0:08:58.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you will have invented a new excuse,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:58.06,0:09:03.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,any excuse to fail to take action, and this excuse
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.08,0:09:06.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've heard so many times.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:06.04,0:09:18.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Yes, I would pursue a great career, but I value
Dialogue: 0,0:09:18.01,0:09:23.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,human relationships more than accomplishment.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:23.03,0:09:28.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to be a great friend. I want to be a great spouse.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:28.02,0:09:31.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to be a great parent, and I will not sacrifice them
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.08,0:09:35.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,on the altar of great accomplishment."
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.07,0:09:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:37.08,0:09:39.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What do you want me to say?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.04,0:09:42.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, do you really want me to say now, tell you,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:42.04,0:09:45.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Really, I swear I don't kick children." (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:45.07,0:09:49.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Hmm? Look at the worldview you've given yourself.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.09,0:09:54.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're a hero no matter what, and I, by suggesting,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.10,0:09:58.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,ever so delicately, that you might want a great career,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:58.02,0:10:01.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,must hate children. I don't hate children. I don't kick them.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:01.03,0:10:04.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Yes, there was a little kid wandering through this building
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.00,0:10:08.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when I came here, and no, I didn't kick him. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:08.03,0:10:11.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Course, I had to tell him that the building was for adults only
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.04,0:10:12.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to get out.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:12.08,0:10:14.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He mumbled something about his mother,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:14.08,0:10:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I told him she'd probably find him outside anyway.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:18.07,0:10:22.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Last time I saw him, he was on the stairs crying. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:22.01,0:10:24.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What a wimp. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:10:24.06,0:10:27.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what do you mean? That's what you expect me to say.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:27.00,0:10:29.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You really think, you really think it's appropriate
Dialogue: 0,0:10:29.03,0:10:32.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that you should actually take
Dialogue: 0,0:10:32.01,0:10:35.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,children and use them as a shield?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:35.09,0:10:37.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what will happen someday,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:37.08,0:10:41.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you, you ideal parent, you?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.09,0:10:45.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The kid will come to you someday and say,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:45.02,0:10:47.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I know what I want to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:47.04,0:10:49.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know what I'm going to do with my life."
Dialogue: 0,0:10:49.04,0:10:51.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You are so happy. It's the conversation
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.08,0:10:54.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a parent wants to hear, because your kid's good in math,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.07,0:10:57.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you know you're going to like what comes next.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:57.08,0:10:59.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Says your kid, "I have decided
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.10,0:11:02.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to be a magician.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:02.06,0:11:06.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I want to perform magic tricks on the stage."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:06.08,0:11:08.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:08.08,0:11:11.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what do you say?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:11.02,0:11:13.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You say, you say,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:13.07,0:11:17.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Umm ... that's risky, kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:17.00,0:11:19.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Might fail, kid. Don't make a lot of money at that, kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.08,0:11:21.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, I don't know, kid,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:21.00,0:11:22.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you should think about that again, kid,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:22.09,0:11:24.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you're so good at math, why don't you — "
Dialogue: 0,0:11:24.04,0:11:25.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And the kid interrupts you, and says,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:25.09,0:11:30.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"But it is my dream. It is my dream to do this."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:30.04,0:11:32.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what are you going to say?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:32.03,0:11:33.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what you're going to say?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:33.09,0:11:39.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Look kid. I had a dream once, too, but -- but."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.04,0:11:42.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So how are you going to finish the sentence with your "but"?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.03,0:11:48.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"... But. I had a dream too, once, kid, but I was afraid to pursue it."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:48.02,0:11:50.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Or, are you going to tell him this?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:50.08,0:11:54.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"I had a dream once, kid.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.06,0:11:59.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But then you were born." (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:11:59.06,0:12:01.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter) (Applause)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.05,0:12:06.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you, do you really want to use your family,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.09,0:12:09.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,do you really ever want to look at your spouse
Dialogue: 0,0:12:09.06,0:12:14.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and your kid and see your jailers?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.01,0:12:18.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There was something you could have said to your kid
Dialogue: 0,0:12:18.00,0:12:22.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when he or she said, "I have a dream."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:22.01,0:12:27.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You could have said, looked the kid in the face, and said,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:27.06,0:12:30.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Go for it, kid,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:30.03,0:12:34.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just like I did."
Dialogue: 0,0:12:34.06,0:12:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you won't be able to say that
Dialogue: 0,0:12:37.03,0:12:44.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because you didn't. So you can't. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:12:44.08,0:12:47.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so the sins of the parents
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.03,0:12:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,are visited on the poor children.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:52.04,0:12:57.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Why will you seek refuge in human relationships
Dialogue: 0,0:12:57.07,0:13:03.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as your excuse not to find and pursue your passion?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:03.04,0:13:05.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know why.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:05.06,0:13:08.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In your heart of hearts, you know why,
Dialogue: 0,0:13:08.09,0:13:11.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I'm being deadly serious.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:11.02,0:13:13.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know why you would get all warm and fuzzy
Dialogue: 0,0:13:13.08,0:13:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wrap yourself up in human relationships.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:16.08,0:13:20.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It is because you are —
Dialogue: 0,0:13:20.06,0:13:22.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know what you are.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:22.04,0:13:26.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're afraid to pursue your passion.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:26.02,0:13:28.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're afraid to look ridiculous.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:28.03,0:13:34.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're afraid to try. You're afraid you may fail.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:34.09,0:13:41.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Great friend, great spouse, great parent, great career.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:41.03,0:13:46.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is that not a package? Is that not who you are?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:46.03,0:13:49.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,How can you be one without the other?
Dialogue: 0,0:13:49.05,0:13:52.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you're afraid.
Dialogue: 0,0:13:52.01,0:14:00.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And that's why you're not going to have a great career, unless --
Dialogue: 0,0:14:00.07,0:14:07.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless, that most evocative of all English words --
Dialogue: 0,0:14:07.00,0:14:08.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:08.09,0:14:13.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But the unless word is also attached
Dialogue: 0,0:14:13.00,0:14:18.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to that other, most terrifying phrase,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:18.07,0:14:21.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If only I had ... "
Dialogue: 0,0:14:21.05,0:14:24.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"If only I had ... "
Dialogue: 0,0:14:24.03,0:14:29.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,If you ever have that thought ricocheting in your brain,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:29.03,0:14:33.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it will hurt a lot.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:33.01,0:14:35.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, those are the many reasons
Dialogue: 0,0:14:35.08,0:14:37.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why you are going to fail
Dialogue: 0,0:14:37.03,0:14:40.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to have a great career,
Dialogue: 0,0:14:40.05,0:14:45.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unless ...
Dialogue: 0,0:14:45.04,0:14:49.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unless.
Dialogue: 0,0:14:49.08,0:14:54.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you. (Applause)