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Leslie Odom Jr. of Hamilton

Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond

CHAPTER

The Importance of Self-Esteem

I don't remember the exact day, but it was pretty soon after we opened on Broadway. I had to wait until then, because the business is littered with great art and artists that were not appreciated or celebrated in their time. You know, as a young person, the only way you really build self-esteem is you got to prove certain things to yourself. And what Lynn did for a room of people at Carnegie Mellon was he gave us the evidence of what was of what we suspected about ourselves. He let us prove it firstly to ourselves that we are capable of more than we are being asked to do most of the time. Then we got to stand on stage and show little black

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