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Remember “The More You Know,” those public service announcements that taught you about the dangers of crack cocaine or dry drowning? We try to live by the opposite credo: The Less You Know. You see, the more you think you know, the less you want to learn—and learning leads to trying, trying leads to failing, and failing leads to growth. So anytime we think we know it all, we just try to step back and remind ourselves we’re idiots. Trust us, this is good advice.
That is what this book is about: trying as a form of succeeding, so that you never end up living alone in a swamp like that bastard Yoda.
I grew up in a town just north of New York City called Scarsdale, with a large and in-charge Jewish population,
Rick taught me two incredibly important lessons that still stick with me to this day. First, you get one favor from anyone in Hollywood, so choose wisely. He considered reading the script a freebie but the next time I needed something I’d better make sure it was good. And second: you’re only as good as your life experiences. Rick’s advice was less about the script and more about how you approach the world—wanting to be creative from a young age is fantastic, but you need to live to have stories to tell. I was spending so much time locked in a basement attempting to hone my craft that I had
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you can’t wait until things are at their worst to start prioritizing self-care and exercise in your life.
Listen to your body, even if other people, including doctors, tell you nothing is wrong. You know yourself better than anybody.
Once when we were kids, my sister kept telling me that I was, in fact, dead, and was a dumb-ass ghost who didn’t realize he was dead. My mother, rolling her eyes, told me to tell her that she was a liar, and several minutes later I came back crying even harder because my sister then told me that she would kill herself so that she could become a spirit and then murder me in the ghost world, and started chasing me with a kitchen knife. This was one of our nice fights.
Author Henry David Thoreau was known for his philosophies of self-reliance, solitude, simple living, and independence, which he famously developed while living by himself for two years at Walden Pond. What he left out of his book was that he would often dip into town so that his mom could do his fucking laundry.
