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#119: Kevin Costner on Building His Career, Positive Self-Talk, and Making Dances with Wolves Happen

The Tim Ferriss Show

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What's the Hardest Job?

When he was growing up, his parents would put him through what he called the sweet and sour summers. They would have some fun experience that his parents would expose him to. But then they would be required to go do not a thankless job, but a hard, manual job. His dad wa's the hardest on me. You couldn't be harder than my dad. And so academia was not a thing for me. I wasn't really advanced in my thinking or my eyes weren't open to the real possibilities. The greatest things i did was when i would go drive trucks or frame houses, or e worked on commercial fishing boats.

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