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Books That Changed My Life: Tony Weaver & Three Plays PT. 4

22 Jul 2025 · 1 min

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A short YouTube monologue (part of "Books That Changed My Life: Tony Weaver & Three Plays PT. 4") in which the speaker reflects on personal experiences with parental expectations, escaping poverty, and a fraught relationship to perceived talent. He describes being raised with high hopes—told early to pursue college and a stable career—which led to harsh self-criticism and a distant awareness of his own uncommon talents.

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Are you aware of the fact that you're talented in a way that most people aren't? I have like a very distant awareness of it. I was really hard on myself when I was younger. My parents had really high hopes for me. Like, for me, I was the culmination of my parents character arc. We grew up in single parent households. We escaped poverty. We established a foundation. We have a son and our son does.
And I'm like, play Pokemon cards. And they're like, no. Our son goes to college and gets a great job. And that's what I was told when I was like five or six. So I've always been super, super hard on myself in a way that made it difficult for me to look at myself as talented.