Jerry Seinfeld tells a story about a Glenn Miller orchestra trudging through snow to a gig, then watching a warm family laugh together inside. He argues the fulfilled people are those who endure discomfort doing what they love, not those seeking comfort.
Have you ever seen this clip of him at a comedy club talking to a struggling comedian? He just caught Jerry backstage and asked him for some advice about how to make it.
This is my favorite story about showbiz. Glenn Miller's Orchestra, they were doing some gig somewhere. They can't land where they're supposed to land because it's winter, snowy night. So they have to land like in this field and walk to the gig. And they're dressed in their suits, they're ready to play, they're carrying their instruments. So they're walking through the snow and it's wet and it's slushy. And in the distance they see this little house. They go up to the house. They look in the window and in the window they see this family. There's a guy and his wife, she's beautiful, and there's two kids and they're smiling, they're laughing, and they're eating. And these guys are standing there in their suits and they're wet and they're shivering. They're holding their instruments. One guy turns to the other guy and goes, "How do people live like that?" That's what it's about, right?
The people who are going to live their most fulfilled life, they're the ones marching through the snow in the discomfort, but they're doing exactly the thing that they want to be doing. They chose this discomfort.
