Lewis Howes

And for me, that sent me like into an abyss.

It was like the darkest period that I can remember.

It felt like I was in an abyss because you know, I've been living this sort of negative empty life without really any real Hope for the future and and you know, I didn't I actually didn't finish Swedish high school.

I I was there but I didn't get like my final grades and

Last year of school, I was there 40% of the time.

So it was, I was already kind of like, you're like a troublemaker.

I was, I was, I was not like doing the right things.

And I, you know, at best I was like, maybe I'll like,

be a bartender and then maybe one point I'll have my own bar or something like that that's sort of as far as I was my dreams went before this sort of acting thing and then the sort of the potential of this whole other life and this feeling of like

you know, doing, connecting with the text and then seeing like the effect that it had on people that saw it and like feeling like something that felt like respect and promise, you know?

So it was this whole,

potential of a world of a life that was there and then when i was and and and getting into this national theater school that was a huge deal um in sweden in sweden it was it's very difficult to get in actually what's it called it's a national theater school okay and and it's like that is the like

when you go there you study for four years i think now it's three but then it was four years after that you are an actor like that is your profession you actually have like a phd in acting it's like it's a and you're getting booked for gigs in sweden or you're i mean it's like you know it's still not an easy life you know like i think the average thing is like two years after that school like 50 are like unemployed you know so but so it's still like it's not not like

your life is said, but you, in the eyes of society, you are an actor, which actually means something different in Scandinavia and in Europe than it does here.

Because here, like any waiter at a restaurant is an actor because they did

you know, a couple of voiceover things in a commercial.

It's different.

You feel the essence that it's an old profession that demands respect.

And it's like... It's looked at with more respect there.

It is.