If You Do Something Awesome, You Should

I Remember What It Was Like To Be Doing 'lost' And How Creatively Immersive It Was. I Just Couldn't Really Engage On Anything Else, Other Than 'lost;' I Was Just Thinking About It All The Time, And Then There Was Just The Pure Workload, The 70- Or 80-hour Weeks.

People Talk About Overnight Successes, And Ultimately, There's A Certain Amount Of, You Want To Call It Luck Or Fortune Or Good Fortune, Or Whatever, But When Your Moment Arrives, You Have To Have Been At A Point Where You Paid Your Dues, Or Done Your 10,000 Hours Or Have The Requisite Talent Or Whatever.

As Cliched As It Sounds, If You Have An Original Voice And An Original Idea, Then No Matter What Anybody Says, You Have To Find A Way To Tell That Story.

I Felt Like If I Said Something Positive On Twitter, It Got No Play. But If I Said Something Negative On Twitter, It Was A Billion Retweets And So That Was Giving Me A Pavlovian Response To Be Mean, And I Don't Want To Be Mean. We All Have Mean Thoughts. They Should Not Be Broadcast On Twitter. You Don't Need To See Mean Things.

I Feel Like Great Ted Talks Are Ones That Are A Little Bit Subject To Interpretation, That Do Provoke Further Conversation - And Potentially Controversy.