A speaker reflects on the truth he avoided telling himself: that he was an artist. He believes embracing this identity earlier would have let him share his work with hundreds of thousands of people. He traces this insight to advice he gave his daughter at her bat mitzvah in Israel.
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The, the thing here, the one like kernel that I want to stay in everyone's like mind is dare to tell yourself the truth about what really is calling to you. Just dare to tell yourself the truth because you're right. If you ask me, if I had the courage and if I did the inner work to acknowledge these stories around being an artist earlier on, I would've given the gift not just of my art, but just of my being a fully alive, thriving person to the hundreds of thousands of people that I've with, right? So just dare to tell yourself the truth because, you know, it was my daughter's bat mitzvah. She's 21, but it was her bat mitzvah in Israel when she was 13. And the speech, what I told her then is what I— when people ask me, what's your number one life advice? It's that.