Stutz

00:32:20,313 --> 00:32:22,523 it wants to have a connection to everybody. 609 00:32:22,607 --> 00:32:24,192 [Jonah laughs] 610 00:32:24,275 --> 00:32:26,486 [Stutz] The shame, embarrassment, 611 00:32:26,569 --> 00:32:29,489 is actually the glue that holds the universe together. 612 00:32:29,572 --> 00:32:33,868 It's in that experience that you're forced to connect to somebody else. 613 00:32:34,869 --> 00:32:36,788 Anyway, things won't be perfect. 614 00:32:36,871 --> 00:32:41,125 In a filming sense or an artistic sense, something might not work out, 615 00:32:41,209 --> 00:32:44,295 but in its impossibility, something's gonna happen. 616 00:32:44,921 --> 00:32:47,006 This is my real hair, by the way. 617 00:32:47,090 --> 00:32:48,383 [laughs] 618 00:32:48,466 --> 00:32:51,094 What? What's the matter? Wait, what's the matter? 619 00:32:51,177 --> 00:32:54,389 What you have to say is, "I'm gonna do the best I can now." 620 00:32:54,472 --> 00:32:57,141 "I'll go to the next thing and do the best I can there." 621 00:32:57,225 --> 00:33:01,020 And it sounds trite and superficial, but believe me, it's not. 622 00:33:02,563 --> 00:33:06,943 Great, so you're saying the worse it is, the better we did? 623 00:33:07,026 --> 00:33:08,111 -[Stutz] Yes. -Great. 624 00:33:08,194 --> 00:33:10,321 Isn't that how Hollywood works in general? 625 00:33:10,405 --> 00:33:12,949 -[Jonah laughs] -I always thought. I don't know. 626 00:33:16,494 --> 00:33:18,746 All right, well, then let's just keep going. 627 00:33:18,830 --> 00:33:20,832 [melancholic music plays] 628 00:33:23,292 --> 00:33:26,295 [Stutz] If you have the tools, we can turn this around. 629 00:33:26,963 --> 00:33:29,549 So we have to keep going. 630 00:33:30,216 --> 00:33:31,050 Keep going. 631 00:33:31,134 --> 00:33:33,469 It seems stupid. Isn't that, like, simplistic? 632 00:33:33,553 --> 00:33:38,182 It is, but we want to say, "I'm the one who puts the next pearl on the string." 633 00:33:38,266 --> 00:33:39,976 That's all. Nothing else. 634 00:33:40,059 --> 00:33:42,103 That's called the String of Pearls. 635 00:33:42,186 --> 00:33:46,816 That's probably the most important thing, motivationally, you could teach yourself. 636 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,444 You just draw a string of pearls. 637 00:33:49,527 --> 00:33:52,572 There's a line then a circle, line then a circle. 638 00:33:52,655 --> 00:33:55,783 Each one of those circles equals one action. 639 00:33:56,409 --> 00:33:57,744 But here's the thing. 640 00:33:57,827 --> 00:33:59,954 Every action has the same value. 641 00:34:00,830 --> 00:34:02,999 This is a matter of identity. "Who am I?" 642 00:34:03,499 --> 00:34:06,961 "I'm not great. I'm not shit. I don't want to look at myself and think…" 643 00:34:07,045 --> 00:34:10,882 I look at myself just in terms of the habits with which I take action. 644 00:34:10,965 --> 00:34:14,385 If there's a failure or a big success, by the way, either way, 645 00:34:14,469 --> 00:34:15,887 you're gonna keep going. 646 00:34:16,554 --> 00:34:21,017 I am the person that puts the next pearl on the string. That's it. 647 00:34:21,559 --> 00:34:24,896 So essentially getting out of bed in the morning is a string of pearls. 648 00:34:24,979 --> 00:34:26,314 -Just getting out of bed… -Yes. 649 00:34:26,397 --> 00:34:28,357 …and doing what you have to do that day 650 00:34:28,441 --> 00:34:31,152 and not putting, like, a size value on the effort. 651 00:34:31,235 --> 00:34:33,154 -[Stutz] That's right. -They're all the same size. 652 00:34:33,237 --> 00:34:36,783 The beautiful thing about you, even though you're an asshole, 653 00:34:36,866 --> 00:34:38,367 is that you never stop. 654 00:34:38,451 --> 00:34:40,870 You have that. You have a taste for uncertainty. 655 00:34:41,996 --> 00:34:47,001 The first session we had, you said that true confidence is living in uncertainty. 656 00:34:47,752 --> 00:34:49,045 Yeah, and moving forward. 657 00:34:49,128 --> 00:34:52,965 The winner is not the one who always makes the best decisions or looks the best. 658 00:34:53,049 --> 00:34:56,052 The winner is the one who works that cycle. 659 00:34:56,135 --> 00:34:58,846 In other words, who's willing to take a risk, 660 00:34:58,930 --> 00:35:02,934 will interact with some degree of faith, and then eats the consequences. 661 00:35:03,017 --> 00:35:06,062 If the consequences are bad, then you gotta work the cycle again. 662 00:35:06,145 --> 00:35:07,355 That's as good as it gets. 663 00:35:07,980 --> 00:35:09,482 Now, here's the thing. 664 00:35:09,565 --> 00:35:13,027 In every one of these little circles, there's a little darker circle, 665 00:35:13,111 --> 00:35:17,031 much smaller, and the darker circle is a turd. 666 00:35:17,115 --> 00:35:21,119 It's kind of funny in a way, but