The other day I was sitting in the staff room at MPOW when I picked up a Times magazine and found an article in it entitled “Wisdom from famous over-65s”. The article itself is available online, of course. It’s a look at a book called Wisdom by Andrew Zuckerman, which has interviews with people ranging from Archbishop Desmond Tutu, through to Billy Connolly, Nelson Mandela, Malcolm Fraser and Dame Judy Dench.
Clint Eastwood’s words made me think:
Take your profession seriously; don’t take yourself seriously. Don’t take yourself seriously in the process, because you really only matter to a certain degree in the whole circus out here. If a person is confident enough in the way they feel, whether it’s an art form or whether it’s just in life, it comes off – you don’t have anything to prove; you can just be what you are.