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No one tells the story of the hero where everything worked the first time.
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- I was like, would I trade that life for Aristotle's good life, where I amount to nothing, but the whole time was good?
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0:00Do you know the guy who uh wrote Jingle Bells? >> No. >> So, there's this [music] guy, he has the most tragic life you can imagine. Did nothing but failed, was a failed everything. He just happened to write this small thing called Jingle Bells, and it has become, you know, the number one song at Christmas time, like maybe globally. And I think about that life where it's like, what if I failed at everything, but then I have one thing that actually makes a permanent impact? I was like, would I trade that life for Aristotle's good life, where I amount to nothing, but the whole time was good? And this is just one of my eternal battles where I think with myself that I have no answer for, to be clear. But when I'm when I'm thinking through the periods where things [music] suck, I'm like, well, maybe maybe I'll get a Jingle Bells out of this.
0:42>> Mhm. >> And maybe it'll just take 20 years longer than I thought.