Taking a Chance on Doing What You Love

Welcome back to The Daily Mastermind. I hope you are having an amazing week. My name is George Wright III. I am your host. And today I have a really good audio that I want to have you listen to. And this is a commencement speech that Jim Carrey did. And I've referenced it a couple of times in a few different episodes because it's got some just brilliant words of wisdom. But I I thought you'd really enjoy listening to him give this short, it's about seven minutes, commencement speech on, you can fail at what you don't want, so you might as well take a chance at doing what you love. That's one of the key messages that I got from this. But he has some great, great examples and some really good information. So I want you to listen to this. I hope it'll inspire you. I hope you get a lot out of it. And I look forward to talking with you a little bit more tomorrow. Have a great day. You are the vanguard of knowledge and consciousness. A new wave in a vast ocean of possibilities. On the other side of that door, there's a world starving for new ideas, new leadership. I've been out there for 30 years. She's a wild cat. She'll rub up against your leg and purr until you pick her up and start petting her. And then out of nowhere, she'll swatch in the face. it can be rough out there but that's okay because there's soft serve ice cream with sprinkles I guess that's what I'm really trying to say here today sometimes it's okay to eat your feelings now fear is going to be a player in your life But you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts worrying about the pathway to the future but all there will ever be is what happening here And the decisions we make in this moment which are based in either love or fear So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality. What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect, so we never dare to ask the universe for it. I'm saying I'm the proof that you can ask the universe for it. Please. And if it doesn't happen for you right away, it's only because the universe is so busy fulfilling my order. Party size! My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn't believe that that was possible for him. And so he made a conservative choice. Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant. And when I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job. And our family had to do whatever we could to survive. I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don't want. so you might as well take a chance on doing what you love. It's not the only thing he taught me, though. You know, I watched the effect of my father's love and humor and how it altered the world around me. And I thought, that's something to do. That's something worth my time. It wasn't long before I started acting up. People would come over to the house and they be greeted by a seven throwing himself down a large flight of stairs They would say what happened And I would say, I don't know, let's check the replay. I'd go back to the top of the stairs and come back down in slow motion. It was a very strange household. My father used to brag that I wasn't a ham, I was the whole pig. And he treated my talent as if it was his second chance. when I was about 28 after a decade as a professional comedian I realized one night in LA that the purpose of my life had always been to free people from concern just like my dad and when I realized this I dubbed my new devotion the church of freedom from concern the church of FFC and I dedicated myself to that ministry what's yours how will you serve the world what do they need that your talent can provide that's all you have to figure out as someone who's done what you're about to go and do I can tell you from experience the effect you have on others is the most valuable currency there is because everything you gain in life will rot and fall apart and all that will be left of you is what was in your heart my choosing to free people my choosing to free people from concern and got me to the top of a mountain. Look where I am Look what I get to do Everywhere I go I going to get emotional because when I tap into this it really is extraordinary to me I did something that made people present their best selves to me wherever I go I am at the top of the mountain and I was and the only one I hadn't freed was myself and that's when my search for identity deepened I wondered who I'd be without my fame who would I be if I said things that people didn't want to hear or if I defied their expectations of me what if I showed up to the party without my Mardi Gras mask and refused to flash my breasts for a handful of bees? I'll give you a moment to wipe that image out of your mind. But you guys are so ahead of the game. You already know who you are. And that piece, that piece that we're after, lies somewhere beyond personality. beyond the perception of others, beyond invention and disguise, even beyond effort itself. You can join the game, fight the wars, play with form all you want, but to find real peace you have to let the armor go. Your need for acceptance can make you invisible in this world. Don't let anything stand in the way of the light that shines through this form. risk being seen in all of your glory.