"Opportunities Look A lot Like Work" [View all]

[kpete]

First, opportunity:

I believe that opportunity looks a lot like hard work . I never had a job in my life that I was better than. I was always just lucky to have a job. And every job I had was a stepping-stone to my next job. And I never quit my job until I had my next job. And so opportunities look a lot like work.

Number two, being sexy:

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else … is crap, I promise you. It’s just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don’t buy it. Be smart, be thoughtful, and be generous.

The third thing… is something that I just re-learned when I was making this movie about Steve Jobs:

Steve Jobs said, when you grow up, you tend to get told that the world is the way that it is, and that your life is to live your life inside the world and try not to get in too much trouble, and maybe get an education, and get a job, and make some money and have a family. But life can be a lot broader than that when you realize one simple thing: and that is that everything around us that we call life was made up by people that are no smarter than you. And you can build your own things, you can build your own life that other people can live in.

So build a life; don’t live one, build one. Find your opportunities and always be sexy.


(not an (Chris) Ashton Kutcher fan, but this is smart):
Read more: http://www.addictinginfo.org/2013/08/16/is-ashton-kutchers-speech-really-all-that-inspiring-turns-out-it-is-video/#ixzz2c9EotBaV