With age, you see people fail more. You see yourself fail more. How do you keep that fearlessness of a kid? You keep going. Luckily, I'm not afraid to make a fool of myself.
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The moment your kid's born you realize no one knows anything. No one goes to classes. You just have a kid. You can read all the books you like, but unfortunately none of our kids have read the books so they don't care. You're basically making it up as you go along.
Interpretation
What this quote means
Parenting is an improvisational journey filled with uncertainty and learning.
In this quote, Hugh Jackman reflects on the experience of becoming a parent, emphasizing that despite the abundance of advice and literature available, the reality of parenting is often chaotic and unpredictable. Each child is unique, and parents navigate this experience without a set rulebook, adapting and improvising as they learn along the way.
Themes
ParentingImprovisationLearningUnpredictabilityKids
In practice
Example use cases
In a parenting workshop, to emphasize the unpredictability of raising children.
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I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people. So I've always said 'yes' to the thing I'm most scared about. The fear of letting myself down - of saying 'no' to something that I was afraid of and then sitting in my room later going, 'I wish I'd had the guts to say this or that' - that galvanizes me more than anything.
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Because I believe actually the more you do something, the less frightening it becomes because you start to realize the outcome is not as important as you think.
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I think the most interesting question is, why do you act? I act because I have felt in acting some of the most free moments of my life...I think it's also one thing that scares me the most.
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