“You can fail at what you don’t want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.”- Jim Carrey, 2014
Jim Carrey’s commencement address to Maharishi University of Management’s class of 2014.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajMpfPYlHi4
Transcript:
You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts.
Worrying about the pathway to the future.
But all there will ever be, is what’s happening here.
In decisions we make in this moment, which are based in either love, or fear.
So many of us choose our path out of fear, disguised as practicality.
What we really want seems impossibly out of reach and ridiculous to expect; So we never dare to ask the universe for it.
I’m saying,
I’m the proof that you can ask the universe for it.
My father could have been a great comedian, but he didn’t believe that it was possible for him.
And so he made a conservative choice.
Instead, he got a safe job as an accountant, and when I was 12 years old, he was let go from that safe job, and our family had to do whatever we could to survive.
I learned many great lessons from my father, not the least of which was that you can fail at what you don’t want. So you might as well take a chance on doing what you love.