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Bill Gurley

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Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

No doubt.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

The book really has two target audiences.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

So on one hand, it's the young person who's, or even maybe up to mid-career, who really is trying to figure out what they want to do or always wanted to chase a dream and didn't know how, or someone who just really needs an extra push to go do that.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

It's for all those people, for sure.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

And a lot of people that have read it have said, oh, I want to give it to, you know, every young adult's going to be handed this thing.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

I hope they take the time to read it.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

But the other audience is the parents, the counselors, the people that are playing a role in this shaping of these careers for other people.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

Because I do think that the natural tendency is to not kind of be supportive and give the right push at the right moment.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

And I know you had Matthew McConaughey on.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

And in his book, Greenlights, he tells this story of he's going to.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

He's told his father his whole life he's gonna be a lawyer, and he decides that he now wants to switch to film school, and he's afraid to tell his father.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

And it's a great scene.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

It really, to me, speaks to the purpose of this book.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

When he finally gets the gumption and tells his father, his father says, well, don't half-ass it.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

And in the book, McConaughey says it was the last thing he expected, but the most valuable thing his father could have said.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

He gave him permission, responsibility, a push, basically told him, well, if you're going to go do it, be really great at it.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

And obviously it launched an incredible career.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

But for all that second group, how can I help you build?

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

be as good as McConaughey's dad was at that moment.

Young and Profiting with Hala Taha
Bill Gurley: Break Free From Career Regret and Design Work You Love | Career | YAPLive | E387

And, you know, sense that there's a sparkle of interest and curiosity and help it flourish.