The Most Eye Opening 10 Minutes Of Your Life | Tom Hiddleston | MotivationArk

feel free to fail or at least feel free to move so that not everything has to be perfect because God knows life isn't perfect and there are rough edges and on your way to becoming good at something you necessarily have to stumble and bump and fall and and pick yourself up and dust yourself off and go again we all have two lives the second begins when you realize you only have one you only get one like this is it so I'm not wasting any time I saw an amazing video on YouTube and it was about this young guy who was told he had terminal a terminal illness he had about a 100 days to live and it was incurable he basically spent the end the last 100 days of his life being amazing and he did all the things that he had always wanted to do and it seemed like he was more alive in those 100 days than the rest of us because he knew that it was all going to end and it made me think well it is going to end so I better get on with it and that was kind of that's a very galvanizing thing it's like you know do what you love I think it's a quote from Shakespeare which is four words take pains be perfect I think his way of saying you know be don't be afraid of caring I mean when I started acting well basically I I gave myself permission to care because there are a lot of people in this world who are afraid of caring or afraid of showing that they care because it's uncool it's uncool to have passion it's so much easier to lose when you've shown everyone how much you don't care if you win or lose it's much harder to lose when you show that you care you'll never win unless you also stand to lose and it basically you know I've said it before don't be afraid of your passion like just give it free reign and be honest and and work hard and be on time never underestimate the importance of punctuality be prepared you can never be overprepared and be true to yourself and it'll all turn out just fine and the thing is is that you know with negativity is is they are like clouds that pass across the Sun and they will pass like they're just feelings you know what I mean and it's important not to dwell on them and just move past it there is so much I find maybe it's my nature but there's just so much about life that's amazing and when you kind of key into that and I try not to get bogged down in disappointment and nobody has an easy ride that's for sure there's not a single person in this room who's had an easy ride and it's about to get harder I'm sure but it also gets better and and the point about going through those experiences is you just have to sort of go what it is what it is and it'll pass I live um near a couple of parks in London I remember I just one night I couldn't sleep and it was a summer I got up really early in the morning and I went and walked to the nearest big hill and I saw the sun rising and sometimes like that's the answer is just get up when the sun gets up and look around and and you'll realize you're part of an amazing Planet that's all I do when I was at drama school uh drama school was really hard they they deliberately kind of overwork you and they just throw everything at you and maybe I was I was on a three-year course in at a drama school in London called rder the first year you kind of work you sort of sort of slightly showing your strengths and the things that you're good at and the second year they throw you everything you can't do all the things that are your weaknesses and you're basically to work on your weaknesses what's the point in working on your strengths you're working sort of 16 hour days and you're exhausted and you're drained and you're physically tired and and I kind of lost the love a bit I lost my mojo I think my worst experiences are usually are usually quite solitary ones the life of an actor especially at the beginning feels solitary and you're going up for auditions and going up for different parts and repeatedly politely declined sometimes impolitely declined and the door will be closed in your face and you won't know why and that moment is always a puzzling one because the natural instinct is to take it personally I certainly felt as though I had failed and uh you can get very despondent the challenge is to find a way of negotiating that that sense of rejection that sense of failure without it eroding your sense of self and your your own specific talent and your own curiosity in the work I think a myth in the business is that we all have everything to choose from as we don't you know I know I'm not top of everybody's list but you know sometimes you might read something and think I I have read things and gone wow this is amazing and I've chased it down and knocked on the door and people have said actually it's not you Tom we we're thinking of someone different and then my job is to keep knocking on the door and say let me see if I can change your mind I've been very diligent in my training and tried to listen to the advice of all my teachers and instructors as as a student as an academic as as a training actor and I always wanted to do right by them and I found myself this a very scary moment when you're a young actor most people find themselves in their early 20s and everything is possible and nothing is guaranteed and you start auditioning and you if you're lucky enough you have an agent and you start auditioning and they send you everything from period drama to casualty to dairy milk commercials and you are thrown into the business and thrown into it at the deep end and there's no time for doubt or failure except routinely that's what happens to all of us and I was so I perhaps was too careful in auditioning and I would always get close to Landing roles and to booking jobs and I would never quite get there and I mean this is a universal experience for all creative people certainly actors is that the constant rejection at the beginning and um you have to get used to it and you have to get thick skinned about it and I was she got so exhausted I was I was trying to sort of cuz at first you take it very personally and um I thought well no one's going to help me get there the only person who can do this is me and um I started preparing in a different way and and I sort of stepped up to the plate a little better I think because I could feel time sliding away and I wasn't getting on with life I just was sort of stuck in this rut of of neither acting nor doing anything else and um the experience of being in your 20s is so energetic and I felt so stagnant actually so I just kind of changed everything up and it worked and you know it's just a gut feeling I always trust my gut that's all I have even when I'm working and you're thinking about the shape of a scene and how it should be played and and your head can often get in way and you got to trust your got it's just if I'm inspired if my curiosity is peaked and I want to chase this possibility down that I see in front of me on my desk and some of you may have heard me say this before but and I I always 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