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But I live a dream life in many ways because I let my dreams die I had these dreams as a young man and they were very useful for getting me out the front door They were very useful for putting me on the path But if I had held to them too tightly The path would have led to nowhere And because by God’s grace I had to… That’s a great observation, you know, because I counsel people to develop a vision for their life Because if you don’t have a vision for your life, you’re going to be playing a role in someone else’s vision And it might not be one you would award to yourself But I also say, don’t assume that it’s the precise… That the precise details of this vision are what’s going to unfold But actually what it is, it’s a self-correcting system Is you aim up, but you don’t really know what you’re doing And then you wander towards that up And as you go, you collect more information And that enables you to modify the vision I would say, maybe tell me what you think about this That it wasn’t so much that your dreams died Is that as you pursued them, they got sharper and clearer And that meant you had to leave some of the excess detail behind But you do, when you translate a vague notion Like I’d like to go to Hollywood and be successful That’s a pretty vague plan When you transfer that into the real world, that should sharpen, right? You should find your specific destiny And that’s also, by the way, that’s the bringing down to earth of the meta-narrative Right, I mean, the meta-narrative is Young man from small town goes to Hollywood and makes good But there’s not a lot of detail in that And you flesh that out as you move forward and sharpen your vision And so you found that you had specific talent more on the production And so what did you discover about yourself that was relevant To the production side of things And how did that tangle up with the instantiation of the daily wire And then its expansion into entertainment? Well, I would say when I was a child, I thought as a child, right? I had this dream, as you say it had It was nothing if not ambiguous It seemed clear to me because my exposure to the world had been so small Go West, make good, as you say That seems substantial But of course, anyone who’s lived any life as an adult at all Knows that that’s not substantial in any way There’s nothing there you can hang your life on So I came to Hollywood and I immediately began failing In fact, one of the great criticisms that people make If you even read comments about the kid’s announcement Or the Snow White announcement this week You’ll read many people saying Jeremy Boring is a failed film producer He’s at it again Failed screenwriter Ben Shapiro And I always think that’s a very funny criticism I mean, after all, I don’t say this with any sense of arrogance I say it simply as a matter of fact I’m quite successful In any material sense, I am a quite successful person That success is built atop all of the failures That my detractors online are trying to mock me for What they don’t understand is how proud I am of those failures How instrumental those failures were in helping me To come however far I’ve come And it’ll be future failures that take me wherever it is that I ultimately go Well, you know, a failure Failure is a very interesting way of thinking about something It’s a foolish way of thinking about something If you’re committed to the end goal I mean, what I’ve learned in my life is that I’ve never done anything that I actually did that wasn’t a success Now, I’d add a code into that Which is that doesn’t mean it succeeded the way I thought it would Right, so but if you put your heart into something And the original end that you had conceived of Doesn’t make itself manifest That doesn’t mean that you didn’t learn 10,000 useful things That you’re going to be able to apply to the next project It also doesn’t mean that I’ve often salvaged projects from years later When I think, oh, okay, well, that didn’t work out there But I’ve got all that sitting there that I’ve mastered I can now apply it to this And I truly don’t believe that I’ve ever put my heart into anything In a committed way that hasn’t really radically paid off Even though the timeframe of that payoff was indeterminate And the potential initial goal might not have been realized And then the other thing I would say about the critics Who are criticizing your repeated failures Is that they don’t know anything about entrepreneurial activity And I studied entrepreneurial activity technically for a very long time And one of the things that you see with entrepreneurs is that And you see this with venture capital investors Is that the ratio of failure to success is very high And you have to do a lot of things before something goes viral and bears fruit But that doesn’t mean that all those other attempts That didn’t magically catch fire were failures It just means that you have to do a lot of things Before any one thing really catches on And so if you think that you can be successful without failure You don’t know anything about how to be successful So that’s just a foolish criticism