About Me
Before moving to Los Angeles, I heard that the entertainment business “changes you” — which was a pretty vague and useless expression. This blog is about creating my career in LA and finding out what that means.
I told my high school English teacher, Mr. K, I was going to be a writer. As a graduation gift, he bought me my first leather bound notebook. There were 60 pages. They were unlined.
He wrote inside: “May your imagination and inspiration fill these pages as you pursue your dreams.”
That was eight years ago.
I still buy unlined notebooks.
I told my Engineering teacher the same thing. He said if I was going to waste my life with that career, he could not, in good conscience, write me a recommendation letter for my college applications.
I’ve run into more men and women like the Engineering teacher than Mr. K (through most of life — these people are hardly exclusive to Los Angeles.) Most possess a similar mindset: they’re eager to dispense malice and bitterness under the guise of advice, shielded by their “good intentions.”
Surround yourself with this thinking and it’ll permeate yours. You begin to adopt their mental models: that zero-sum gains are the only gains, arrogance and disdain are the surest paths to the top, and enthusiasm = naivety.
This blog is my reminder this is only as true as we allow.
I write about values and character, to mind my own.
