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#312: Joseph Gordon-Levitt — Actor, Filmmaker, and Entrepreneur

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The Pain of Being Extrinsically Motivated

i was trying to become an actor again and uh failing hmm or just getting rejected a lot um this is right when i started really taking seriously editing and making my own stuff. A dear friend of mine who's a filmmaker ryan johnson is his name who recently made star wars the last Jedi he's a great great filmmaker but also a dear friend. He recommended that i read letters to a young poet  and there's a passage in there all about solitude and it gets a lot of what we've been talking about in terms of being intrinsically motivated which is so important for artists. I think if you're going to be an artist although maybe no matter what you do, try your

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