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I think too many people quit too early
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and we give oursel the options in the
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parachutes and things like relationships
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and work self-help and we pull at some
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when we could still be flying even
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though maybe rocky flight we pull it
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early and okay it's a safe move got down
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to the ground what I was building didn't
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last but most of the time it could if
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you'd have hung in there but if you have
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any ambition resistance is going to come
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and so own that
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Matthew
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Matthew
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Matthew Mah
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you've been able to climb to the very
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top of the mountain again and again and
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again. Is this natural talent or is
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there anything transferable?
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First look at what's in your DNA. Like I
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wanted to play basketball, but no matter
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how hard I worked, I was not the fastest
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nor the biggest. So look at what do you
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have an innate ability for? Then what
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are you willing to hustle for? And this
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is very important because some of us
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have innate ability but we don't work
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for it. We grew up hardcore on hustle,
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hustle, hustle. Sleep was sin in my
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household and no TV. Mom would always
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say, "Why are you going to watch someone
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doing something when you can go out in
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the world and do it yourself?" And then
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number three, endurance. I remember this
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one time when I told my agent, "What I
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want to do is dramas, no more romcoms."
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And this $8 million offer comes in
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comedy. I read it and I said, "No, thank
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you." I come back with a $12 million
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offer. No thanks. $14.5 million offer. I
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said, "Let me read that again."
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Ultimately said, "No, I just wrote
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myself a one ticket out of Hollywood."
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But 20 months after offers came in,
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would those have come if I had never
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stepped out? No.
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No. Number four. If you do this, you're
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most likely going to have some success
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in life.
