Thanks Brad

Do you have a quote you live your life by or think of often?

I love quotes. I have many by writers like Emersion and Shakespeare that are poetic and profound that always inspire me. Song lyrics. I have a huge reapect for song writers who say just what I need to hear.

Today, all I can think of is something that Brad Pitt said in an interview many years ago. He was on a talk show watching clips of himself badly acting in soap operas and commercials. On the huge screen behind them, was a super young and suoer terrible Brad Pitt. To the laughing audience he said: “Well, it just proves that…

“…You can get better at anything.”

At that point he was mid career. He still wasn’t the actor he is today, but he had definitely improved noticeably.

I like the simplicity of that. It’s true. He didn’t say we could excel or be amazing. He didn’t promise that if we tried extra hard or set goals or committed ourself, miracles would occur. Just that improvement can happen, and with anything.

I’m often faced with tasks that I am not naturally inclined to do well. Many things I never wanted to master, somethings I’m not even interested in, but guess what? I’m getting better. I can see it.

It might have been his ability to laugh at himself, and own with a shrug his clear inability to do what he was aspiring to do. A lightness and a sense of humor as I learn new or hard things, does help.

Painting, yoga, things I love doing, and even things I might need to do like making reels on instagram or writing. If I do things more than a few times, I get better at doing them. It’s true.

Words to live by. Way to be encouraging. Thanks BP