i got breakfast with one of my idols and i asked him for advice. what he said left me dumbfounded. https://linktr.ee/thezurkieshow
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$100 or dinner with Albert Einstein? That was the question I used to ask people when I wanted to start to talk to them at the bar. And unequivocally, every time that I asked this question, they would say $100, which is ironic because Albert Einstein was a cool dude. He famously pulled math equations out of his brain and made E equals MC squared, which is fire.
But there was a subset of people who were always like, you know what, I would love to have dinner. Maybe not with Albert Einstein, but maybe with my idol. For some of those people, that meant having dinner with Bethany Moda. That meant having dinner with the creators of Smosh. Maybe that even meant having dinner with Usher and Will.i.am. Oh my gosh, gosh, gosh.
I did it again, so I'm gonna let the beat rock. Famously. But for me, if you would ask me that question, I would actually switch that dinner to a breakfast. And I would have it still with one of my idols. Spoiler alert, I actually got to do that. So I had breakfast with someone who has literally shaped the way that I create videos, that I create art. And I wanted to ask him for advice.
I'm getting to the age now where it's kind of low-key now or never. which is kind of cap, but that's a whole different thing. But I'm 23, and I really want to get serious about what I do. And I was thinking, bro had the answers. So we're sitting at breakfast. I'm eating my little sandwich. And then I pop the question. You know what, man? I love everything you've done. You are a hero to me.
Can you be real? What's a piece of advice that you can give me? He stops eating, and he looks up at me, smirks, and he leans back in his chair. And he says, there is no advice. There is none. And I'm like, what? Like, I'm kind of like, what?
And he says, any advice I could give you is advice that only pertains to me. Everyone has a different journey. The ladder goes up. You climb up the ladder and the ladder goes up.
I'm dumbfounded. Bro's literally breaking my dreams. It's over for me. Until he says this. But the one thing you have to remember is if you want to do something great, Make it happen. It didn't really click for me then, but I understood what he was talking about.
Making it happen means that no matter what the odds are against you, no matter what people say, no matter what doubts you have in your mind about having and achieving something that you've wanted since you were a little baby, You make it happen. I have a friend who wanted to throw a party in New York. He wanted everything to be red. His name is Khalil. Shout out Khalil. Probably watches this.
He is my dearest friend and his idea was crazy. It was nuts. There were going to be 5 million moving pieces, there was going to be an art exhibit, there were going to be these things on stilts, these monsters, custom costumes made, all of this stuff. And I asked him, like, Khalil, like, how are you doing all of this? And he says, I'm just setting a deadline and I'm just making it happen.
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