Matthew McConaughey

This is in between the math.

This is not academic.

This is not intellectual.

These are ideals that we pursue.

The beginner's mind that we have as a child before we know worse.

And I don't want to be ignorant.

I don't want to be foolishly optimistic.

Let's look to those and believe that we can still make those real.

I grew up only knowing sort of the courage of the persistence.

You're resilient, endure, get up, dust yourself off, go.

The problem with that, the Achilles heel with that is if you get up and you have the courage to keep on going every time and get up and dust yourself off, you make the same mistakes each time around because you never backed up.

to have what I've now learned and still learning is the courage to go, no, I'm going to let some people pass me in the race right now because I'm going to look at why I keep stepping in that damn same pothole and twisting my ankle.

The same spot.

then I think it can become a living hell.

I cut that poem in there, Daymares.

I love that one.

I do too.

Nightmares suck, but at least you wake up.

And they're over.

It's the ones that stick with you when you wake up and go through your day that are right there.