What This Movie Director Learned You Must Too

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“I share a post from Billy Oppenheimer, writing/research assistant to Ryan Holiday, shared this on LinkedIn.

billyoppenheimer.com. He writes on Quentin Tarantino and how QT broke free from being trapped within his comfort zone to become a director and celebrity of merit. It is indeed the process many discover, but sadly not enough. Some buckle instead of bursting free. I hope this true tale inspires you to make things happen.

[“At 17, Quentin Tarantino moved to LA with ambitions of being a filmmaker. He got a job at a video store where, he said, “I got caught up in the little life there…and for a few years, it put my ambitions to sleep. Because I was happy enough.” Then one night, An older guy named Steve-O who Tarantino worked and lived with vented about his disgust with his life.

“He starts ranting,” Tarantino said, “He goes, ‘Quentin…at 20, I worked at South Bay Cinemas, and I hung out with a bunch of guys just like you…Then I worked at Miller’s Outpost for 4 years, and I hung out with a bunch of guys just like you…Then I worked at Licorice Pizza for 4 years with a bunch of guys just like you. I’ve wasted my life hanging out with a bunch of guys just like you.”

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Tarantino was about to turn 25 at this time, and not long before Steve-O’s rant, he said, “I was starting to [think], ‘What have I done with my life so far? So far fucking nothing.’ So as I’m having my own little anxiety hitting 25, I’m seeing what it’s like when you’re in your 30s and you’re in this situation.” Not wanting to be in that situation in his 30s—after Steve-O’s rant, Tarantino had what he calls a “Quentin Detest Fest”

“I stayed up all night. looking at everything that I’m fucking up in my life…And then I spent two hours figuring out how I can change it.” “And as opposed to just doing that, and then going to sleep, forgetting about it and falling back into my routine, I decided to change my life.” Tarantino decided to move from the South Bay to Koreatown, closer to the action in Hollywood.

Not long after moving to the Hollywood area, he said, “I met a guy who wrote low-budget horror movies. Through him, I met other writers…You meet one person, and they introduce you to three others. Now all of a sudden, I actually knew people who were making movies.” Surrounded by people making movies, Tarantino started writing his own scripts and helping other writers with theirs.

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Soon, when those writers would get offered jobs rewriting scripts, if they couldn’t take it, they’d recommend Quentin. “And within a year and a half of moving into the Hollywood area,” Tarantino said, “literally, within a year and a half, I was able to make a living as a writer.” Takeaway 1: Tarantino said of those years working at the video store—“it put my ambitions to sleep. Because I was happy enough.”

“I was happy enough,” he repeats. When you’re happy enough, when the job, the pay, or the circumstances are good enough—this is what the psychologist Adam Mastroianni calls The Mediocrity Trap. Mediocre situations, Mastroianni writes, “keep you forever in their orbit because they never inspire the frustration it takes to achieve escape velocity.” To escape the mediocrity trap, you often need a setback (e.g. getting fired), a Steve-O rant…

or, Mastroianni writes, “someone to come in and tell you it’s time to start living.” Takeaway 2: Throughout “Atomic Habits,” James Clear writes that the most reliable way to create better habits is to go to “where your desired behavior is the normal behavior.” END POST].

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It is time to start living. Stop losing out and start winning. Learn to live life on your terms. Create the life you want. Stop hesitating, waffling, blaming and making excuses. Take responsibility and move forward. Decide to do it. He stayed up all night figuring out how to do it AND instead of going back to sleep, forgetting about it and falling back into his normal, comfortable routine he DECIDED to change his life. YOU can too! So…. do it! Join me and I’ll help you. Celebrate everything!” Rex Sikes

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