Originally asked
The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A
This is a standing question in The Guardian's decades-long The Q&A and also recurs independently in career and life interviews.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
Joe Ciccarone, podcast transcript, Built Not Born, 13 July 2022 source ↗
But I had decided that science is really the thing…It is what I wanted. Exactly.
A hairdresser through the week and a star on the weekends.
I was hellbent on being a Thunderbird. I was devastated when my parents finally told me it was a fictional organisation. Ruined my 18th.
Luke Skywalker, for a time. After that, I mainly wanted to have a girlfriend one day.
When I was 19, my boss in the circus – I worked in the circus for 10 years. I was, like, a ringleader, MC of a circus – and my boss at the circus really cared about me and she said, "I read this book called 'Awaken the Giant Within' by Tony Robbins.
"How to Live" feels like such a masterpiece for me that if I did nothing else with my whole life, but write that one book, it still feels like it would have been a life well lived.
In the end, I had to pay $3.3 million dollars to buy back that 90%.
Keep you uncorked, keep you unstuck, keep it flowing, keep the ideas going, keep the feedback, keep you in communication with your potential future customers for the book. I think it's a great idea.
Whatever scares you, go do it.
It would be nice if my books were valued greatly, even after my death.
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