It doesn’t actually reflect on the inner quality of the person doing the losing. If two football teams play a game, one of them loses. We act as if losing is a disaster, but it’s not. You learn from that and you still had the experience of doing that…. The losing isn’t a terrible thing – it’s just failing to achieve something. “I thought I had something valuable to say about losing. I thought to myself, ‘There’s an idea for a book in that’, but it was nearly 10 years later that I wrote that book…”
“I said to Bono, ‘The problem with knowing you is that you lived my life.’ And he said, ‘That’s because I’m your doppelgänger, and if you want your life back, you’ll have to kill me’. It’s something that ultimately has to come from inside of you.” Your level of happiness with your life and your set of circumstances. The answer to all of those things ultimately lie inside of you. There’s a lot of people who are trapped in an idea of themselves that they formed when they were you know, 17….a lot of people that were destroyed and crushed by fame, probably as many people that have crushed by succeeding at whatever their dream was, as have been crushed by failing to succeed at whatever the dream was.
“There’s a lot of miserable pop stars all over the place, I should know because I’ve interviewed plenty of them. (There are so many, you’ll have to listen to get them all.: ) Some great nuggets from our conversation: It also proves that going against “the flow” of your life can not only be frustrating, but lead to unhappiness, but going with the flow can make all the difference. The success of his book and the film proves that something great can come out of what be perceived as a “failure”, and how that can actually lead to unexpected success. CLICK PLAY To hear the featured musical soundtrack
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