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When Opportunity Knocks
00:03:33
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| By the numbers, says somebody on X. I shouldn't. | |
| I've never gotten married. | |
| I had kids, but it happened five kids and 20 years ago. | |
| Yeah, so there's this other funny thing in life, which is I'll do it, not just when I'm not scared, I'll do it when the time is right. | |
| I'll do it when the time is right, I'll do it when I'm ready. | |
| Yeah. | |
| That's a long, a long way to spell procrastination. | |
| When the opportunity arises, just freaking do it. | |
| You know, when I was, an opportunity arose for me in the business world in my 20s. | |
| I was working as a programmer at a very major financial and stock trading institution. | |
| And the opportunity arose to be entrepreneurial. | |
| Was it the right time? | |
| I don't know. | |
| I got my first real professional gig after leaving university. | |
| Was it the right time? | |
| I don't know. | |
| But those opportunities don't come along very often. | |
| Like the girl you really like, she may never come back. | |
| The girl you really like, she may never come back. | |
| I mean, I remember my wife and I met playing volleyball. | |
| And the volleyball team, we didn't really know each other. | |
| We were just all thrown together. | |
| I was there with one or two friends of mine. | |
| And so we thought, well, let's get together. | |
| And so we said, well, next week, we're all going to go across the street to a restaurant. | |
| We can sit down and get to know each other and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. | |
| And I was like, yeah, sounds good. | |
| And anyway, the next week came and only my wife and I went. | |
| Everyone else, oh, I forgot I'm busy. | |
| And we were like, oh, it's kind of a drag. | |
| But she always seemed like a lot of fun and sort of very positive. | |
| And we went and just, we were there for like hours, just talking. | |
| The whole conversation was electric. | |
| I've never done this before, but I realized later, you know, the little bill fold that comes in with the restaurant name on it. | |
| I kept it. | |
| I kept it. | |
| I just went home with it, which made no sense other than I wanted to take something home that night. | |
| And we basically spent every day together since. | |
| And 24 years ago, something like that, we got engaged within a couple of months, got married within 11 months of meeting. | |
| I'm not, and I knew, I mean, I remember being on a hike with her, watching her climb a hill. | |
| We'd had a great conversation. | |
| And I was like, yeah, I can't do better than this. | |
| There's no, I can't do better. | |
| There's no upgrade from here. | |
| And I've never felt that there has been an upgrade from here. | |
| What I'm going to say, well, you know, she's a little short. | |
| And if I have a son, I don't want him to be short or whatever, whatever, whatever, right? | |
| I'll wait for the perfect person, whatever that is, right? | |
| Whatever that is. | |
| And the idea that I would have the arrogance to know what's perfect for me for the rest of my life, I just go on principles, right? | |
| And I remember that. | |
| I'm not going to do better than her. | |
| She's the top. | |
| She's the crowning glory. | |
| And if you get that feeling with someone, and just because she's perfect for me doesn't mean that she's perfect. | |
| I think she is in general, but, you know, it's like that old Grace Jones song, I'm not perfect, but I'm perfect for you. | |
| And when you hit that person, you got that click with. | |
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Perfect For You
00:01:10
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| Strike now. | |
| Close the deal because the hour is getting late. | |
| And you don't get a whole bunch of turns at back, my friends. | |
| It wasn't like, well, I've got 12 offers to become an entrepreneur. | |
| I guess I'll just pick and choose and later and this and that and the other. | |
| Nope. | |
| It's now or never. | |
| Come hold me tight. | |
| It's now or never. | |
| If it's the right thing in the right time, if you've got that opportunity, you've got that, the planet's relying, things are possible, just do it. | |
| Just do it. | |
| And it doesn't matter if you fail. | |
| So when I was in, I originally went to the Glendon campus of York University, and I went, because I love to write and read, and I went to do an English degree. | |
| And through the English degree, I started acting. | |
| And I was always cast as the lead, and there was never any auditions for anyone else, because I was pretty good at it. | |
| Anyway, so then I decided to go to the NAT. | |