Mark Simpson, a first-generation American of Middle Eastern background, says the worst advice he got was to keep everything private. That mindset stopped him from sharing his work until he rejected it and started a YouTube channel.
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What is the worst piece of advice you've ever received or heard? Wow, that's a good question. It's not really a piece of advice. I'm Middle Eastern. I'm first generation American, but my family's from the Middle East. And the cultural thing in our culture is to keep everything really close to the vest is not really to share anything, especially what you're working on. So I would say that's. Man, what a phenomenal question. That would probably be the worst piece of, like, overall thing that I grew up with was keeping everything close to the vest. And it's like, no, you need. That's why I created the YouTube channel, was because, like, I knew I wanted to share what I was working on. And one of the reasons why I'm on the podcast now.