His grandfather's two pieces of advice, given out of nowhere on a walk shortly before he died, which Colin calls the best advice he ever got.
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Colin's father died when he was two, and his grandfather looked after him until he was about nine. On a walk shortly before he died, his grandfather stopped and told him: don't ever grow…
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I didn't do it for you, Colin. I did it for myself.
Today's episode is about authenticity. That is to say, today's episode is about imperfections, the true hallmarks of beauty. These blemishes are insignia of the sublime.
The biggest problem is most legends are built on lies. It's somebody's fantasy of themselves that they promulgate.
All they end up doing is adding one veneer to the next veneer, adding one layer of masquerading to the next layer of masquerading.
Some new product comes along and you go, I thought of that 10 years ago. Yeah, but what did you do about it?
Whatever you do, don't lie, Colin. Just don't lie, 'cause you'll get caught at some point.