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