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The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
The more you know who you are, the less you let things upset you.
I don't regret the things I've done, I regret the things I didn't do.
I'm not a role model, I'm a cautionary tale.
The only way to do great work is to love what you do.
I'm not a legend, I'm just a man who tells stories.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.
So why do I talk about the benefits of failure? Simply because failure meant a stripping away of the inessential. I stopped pretending to myself that I was anything other than what I was, and began to direct all my energy into finishing the only work that mattered to me.
Now, I am not going to stand here and tell you that failure is fun. That period of my life was a dark one, and I had no idea that there was going to be what the press has since represented as a kind of fairy tale resolution. I had no idea then how far the tunnel extended, and for a long time, any light at the end of it was a hope rather than a reality.