Peter Shankman
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330 appearances
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1 series
first heard Oct 2017
last heard Oct 2017
Peter Shankman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I've had some success in my life, right?
I'm not a trillionaire or anything like that, but I've I've done okay.
I sold a couple of companies, I've done all right.
And so I've just always been of the belief that if you have any modicum of success, you have a responsibility to send the elevator back down.
And so for me, this is the best way I know how to do it.
To explain to kids and other people, hey, I'm not you're not broken.
And the things that everyone has been telling you are bad things are actually tremendous gifts.
And I want you to understand that and embrace that.
Pleasure to be here, Debbie.
Thanks for having me.
Yeah, I mean so when I was growing up, uh I grew up in the eight seventies and eighties and we didn't have ADHD.
It wasn't called ADHD, it was called sit down, you're disrupting the class disease.
And, you know, every report card and a lot of notes from the teacher in between those report cards were usually um needs to pay attention to focus, needs to stop interrupting the class, things like that.
And um it was sort of just who I was.
And I was fortunate enough that I had some artistic talent, musical talent, and I
I got into High School of Performing Arts, the Fame School, where everyone was a little weird and uh a little crazy.
And so I went there and you know still was was definitely socially awkward.
I had the social uh acuity of a of a of a hedgehog.
But you know, I learned a little bit more about myself there.
And it didn't really kick in until probably in my late twenties, early thirties, when I sort of got over my social awkwardness and realized.
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