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I probably never would have started it. months when we got going, but-. after you just started it? getting off the ground? >> Horrible, horrible, horrible, horrible. eight months. >> That's terrible! you wake up at 3:00. if we lost everything, so what? death about who you're going to pick, you know it just kind of happens. blind and happy and stumbling along and a job paycheck falls in your back pocket. you still gotta beat around. eight months I learned, the world did me no good. interviews. like stop worrying so much. to have a business plan. credit cards man, that'd be fun. >> My my whole life, Michael Prenny, people in NPR And brother was always really into. about his political beliefs. can you make sure I don't kill anybody? of water if you don't mind. it's an honor to meet you sir. work sir let me tell you. on a stipend getting my Brown University I was teaching. war but the people who produced the war. that produced these people and a lack of dialogue. debate around Vietnam, which is just like who said we could win this war and and that was the extent of the debate. started coming up with and once I came I couldn't pretend they didn't exist. and calling me an agitator. beaten up and arrested by the police and the Ken State day demonstrations, campuses all over the country, I'm not kidding. he was gonna hit me right here. on that guy, he'd be a dead man now. another guy hit me here. so his blow just caught me on >> My gosh. I had a hole here and one over my eye. >> It was only when I couldn't get a job, you got a lemon you make lemonade, right? speaking. those years, when you were hard up for >> You see there are two kinds of people. houses, really nice houses and all that. I still think of doing things, have the original, and I thought have the original in this little house? where everybody could see it. piece of advice that would what would that be? pretending to be somebody you're not. >> I like to call it the big pickle. I may not have my principles like exactly but it doesn't worry me. a collection of experiences. faced with a choice, because of them you know. set anybody up that had been a CEO. perspective on like it's just like like a $40 fine at Blockbuster. he's like screw that, no more late fees. random and in a way it worked out. than any of you guys at you know, 20, wanted to go teach math. in what you were gonna do with your major, whole mathematics thing to the wind? it's a general skill set. not going on to practicing mathematics, human behavior and of you knoq culture, easily not gone into computers and I might have had a whole different life. in good situations. in my case I went into the peace corps. right out of college, and you know. you get a lot of chance to travel. and you know have a lot of adventures. it was just time cuz then you're everything came back when I was 24, as a field in an area. computers without any just a sort of but I didn't have that much knowledge it was a good fit for me. teaching people. I got lucky and came up with an idea for was able to start a company around that. the last ten years which has been just part of culture and so, Netflix clothing somewhere, you know, like in an airport. you've just taken this idea. >> It's like there's something you really people like come up these ideas and through with it though. >> deciding to get married or I think when you have an idea for a company that you just can't let go, it's not you know not a rational thing. the back of my mind and I know that it's we're talking to all these people but people that just tried all this stuff and have heard of them we would never we should fail why not. of learning how to do it. unless you start doing it. shouldn't be holding us back at all. this great moment of realization. changed I think over the road trip. all the experience you know. hike wearing styrofoam shoes? along the road trip, it's just like, >> What's important? [MUSIC] about your future, but comfortable with that, I think is huge. where the grass grows. religions and things of that nature. feelings and listening to yourself, and spirituality being all about, and >> Hi, I'm Tim. Hi Christina. >> Come on in. when I was about 14 that was somebody else's idea. is then but that's what it was. I barely wanted to go to college. was really burning up. the Civil rights movement and I thought I wasn't interested. over my life that they got me into college hard to keep me there. we kinda made a bargain. then I was free to do whatever I wanted. Northern California that I said, zen Buddhist community. ever seen, but they gave me a book and I was kind of nodding my head. rolling up an extension cord, with the physical world. to do anything like that, so different so I became a carpenter. even use a hammer in my life. the zen Buddhist farm at the time who's now my wife. you'd make a good psychotherapist, is what I wanted to in a sense centers into the regular world. could work with people using Buddhist really as a zen teacher, that our craziness gets formed. of things that happen to us. that they keep repeating be a lawyer, you should be a doctor. everyday getting up and a lawyer, or a doctor, or a zen teacher, whatever you choose. life isn't an image. about being happy all the time. work somedays, that's the way it is. like it connects with who you are and you're the one that has to live it. you have a teacher or something that you doing something right or that you're? confirmation that you're doing it right. you who you are and what you do. intellectually, but I think the main thing I'd be with him life would get a little and I'd be laughing all the time. recognition that the conventional necessarily the way things are. that was the biggest hope. something else going on. keeping a not knowing mind. we think we're supposed to know thing, I'm gonna answer you because, hey, with all these cameras. I don't really know all that much. about Buddhism and therapy, and comes from not knowing then you're willing to look. open and you're really ready to listen. closed cuz I already know so you really fall flat on your face. you give to the world is when you discover that my mind wasn't what I thought it was. my thinking actually operates, feel. the less of a slave you'll be to it. Jeff Kitzes and Master Bonzo. to tell you you don't, you do. all figured out right now. earlier this summer, and where I am now. an excited view on everything, [LAUGH] I can do whatever I want. probably and they're swaying the end they found their one thing or me and I think that's, figured that out about myself. your relationships are in your life. about fulfillment and happiness. but nothing to worry about man. worries aren't gonna get you anywhere. is a new adventure. the questions that mean the most to you. only ever done what they've been told. and your brilliant flowers wilted, experiences are the real guiding light. the journey will make you truly happy. but with who you are. happy. all around the globe and visit pbs.org. 

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I'm just so interested in like, you just taking this idea. >> And it's like some people come up with these ideas and followed through with it. like deciding to get married or I think when you have an idea for a company that you just can't let go, that it's not a rational thing. 

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You hear the phrase a lot that life's random in the way it worked out. than any of you guys at 20 so. wanted to go teach math. tie in what you were gonna do with your whole mathematics thing to the wind? a general skill set thing for most people. practicing mathematics. be a student of human behavior and not gone into computers and would have had a whole different life. you do things that are fun. in the Peace Corps and teacher right out of college. as a school teacher, all across Africa and it was just very exciting. thing is it was just time, everything. 25, and I thought, okay, well, just beginning as a field and an area. towards computers without any, >> Well, yeah, I didn't have that much knowledge of it. it was a good fit for me, but a computer company that had a lab for five years and I got lucky and a company around that, which has been just a complete joy. culture and so if we wear a piece just come up to you in like an airport. interested in you just taking this idea, then. up with these ideas and followed through with it. get married or deciding to have kids. when you have an idea for a product or that it's not a rational, 

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Well it's not, yeah, I wouldn't quite call it random. much knowledge of it. a computer company that had a lab for four or five years. came up with an idea for a product and which is in the last ten years, part of culture and somewhere, people just come up to you, I love Netflix, thank you. 

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Math, like English or drama, is a general skill set, I think, for most people. practicing mathematics. be a student of human behaviour, not gone into computers and I would have had a whole different life. situations, you do things that are fun. >> Oh, that's really interesting. corps teacher right out of college. years in rural Africa, you get a lot of chance to travel. Africa and have a lot of adventures. thing is it was time. up and everything and so I came back and maybe I'll try computers. was just beginning as a field in an area. 

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It Was Just Time

I was a math major and that was fun, wanted to go teach math. "Okay, well maybe I'll try And you know, was just beginning as a field Umm...you know, in a computer company that had That was maybe for four or and came up with an idea start a company around that. technical product. which has been the last just a complete joy. life's random in the way And I don't think of you guys at, you know, 20. 

Reed Hastings Highlight

Would you have some piece of advice for us, and maybe the rest of our generation, exploring this area of our life? about what drives human behavior. people do the things they do. the mysteries of space. the mysteries of creation. are the most interesting ones. then every movie is fascinating, every history is fascinating. of humanity and our struggle. 

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And I don't think there are any great lessons other than curiosity is key. okay, yeah, why? things successful and others not? others not? to know it's not just money. have money and are really unhappy. it different not being hungry. happy when you're hungry. in on the economic one. dimensions about relationships and 

Curiosity Is Key

They often say the people who go in it into being an entrepreneur to try in a cold sense, and it is just long odds. who are driven by the passion for work out economically. akin to how you pick a spouse, or it's a deep, than that kind of decision. this product that you developed and you in the inside and everything. it and there was no money in it and I would still feel good about that. doesn't work out after a couple years, to an extreme I suppose, these people who tinker on some idea for and then it explodes. follow your passion that way. 

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