Anthony Bourdain's Life Advice Will Change Your Future (MUST WATCH)

[Music] the open to experience be willing to try new things don't have a rigid plan accept random acts of hospitality without judgment or fear don't be afraid to wander don't be afraid to eat a bad meal you know if you don't risk the bad meal you'll never get the magical one but are they most important you know be humble be grateful be aware of the fact that you were probably the stupidest person in the room as far as you were the least prepared at least equipped person to know who's really in charge of what's really going on I think I made of maybe before I started traveling I thought that the human race as a whole or you know good it would turn on itself at any moment you know venal petty cruel arbitrary and it's truly all of those things exist in this world but I need mostly pretty nice people doing the best they can often under very very difficult conditions I met a lot of very nice people who've done very very bad things that conflict with my deeply held conceptions of justice sexual equality or acceptable practice or we just use a lot of gray areas and travel but I think that on balance the world is filled with people doing the best they can you know who love their kids and you know would like to you know put on a clean shirt every morning and live their lives in the little dignity and have access to food and water hope just like everybody else uninhibited creative freedom is something that I've been incredibly fortunate to have for the better part of my entire television career unlike anyone else I know of in television I've been free to do whatever I want to make the shows I want anywhere I want with whom I want in any style I want so I at first I don't know any other way and by now I won't have it any other way life is good why settle for Less and by the same token when you're given that much freedom and you're you you have essentially no interference and nothing but support behind you what you don't want to do is get lazy and bored and sloppy to me I'd much rather not make TV at all or make even unsuccessful TV then make competent television you know it's very easy to make a conventional travel or food show at this point it's it's like shooting corn it's the same shot sequence and the same sort of limited terminology you know how all of their little pieces work where you have to start and where you have to end I detest competent workmen like storytelling and I'm always very you know the times that we we do that I'm very unhappy with that I'd rather I'd rather fail well I've been fired many times by in my cooking career I've been fired a number of times I was not a particularly good chef I had a lot of problems at various points in my career with narcotics I was very deservedly fired on a number of occasions but I mean if you're talking about failure though you know I accepted failure as a chef because I was at various times a bad chef and even a bad person these days if I fail it's because I tried to do something and did not succeed or I I just was not able to do what I hope to do or wanted to do or maybe I tried to do something that is clearly in retrospect didn't work but I would much rather than that I would much rather fail gloriously than not venture not try I'm not in as I said before I'm not interested in incompetent making telling telling stories with with competence I'm looking to tell them with some style and originality and some creativity that is interesting to me and the people I work with and there have been times that that that has resulted in in failure meaning it didn't work didn't communicate anything like what I wanted too often the story I think I'm gonna get ends up being another story entirely that's even better or very different that's good but there are other times ready to fail miserable you know I tried to do with Sicily shell again and it was not good did not capture the place it did not didn't show us anything of value it did not live up to its the subtlety and beauty of its subject and then there were there are shows where you know some people are just gonna hate it they just don't like the style they think it's self-indulgent they don't get it but that's kind of failure I like you know a powerful reaction one way or the other infinitely preferable to me than pleasing everybody if ever if I walk in a room where everybody agrees with me I find that frightening and dismayed and boring is my answer that question stems my history is an addict a lot of other addicts looked in the mirror everyday and did not see somebody worth saving even at my worst there was a level of vanity I guess I look in the mirror and saw somebody who somebody deep in there regardless of how low I was my circumstances I had a high enough opinion of myself that I thought it's worth going forward I think a lot of people in a similar situation for whatever reason look in the mirror and see somebody that unworthy of things and allow themselves or excuse a downward spiral because they don't really believe in their basic work I did you know so that's vanity I think it's the same drive that allows me to tell stories in books and on TV because let's face it anybody who writes a book or goes on TV with the notion that they have a story worth telling that people might want to listen to you're really already by definition now a sort of an aberrant personality and a monster of self regard this is a very a reasonable attitude I have a unique I have a story that you will want to listen to for ten minutes why would any reasonable I mean I might make a living doing that some you might even want to pay for that story to the point that I could make a living doing that rather than washing dishes or preparing meals that's not normal that takes something and I don't know whether that's you know that's often a very much at odds with with you know being a functioning well-rounded good person in the conventional sense that kind of vanity narcissism self regard self-importance and and cheerful willingness to examine your and share your feelings you know I think Brad Leibovitz said at one point you know you know if you're if you're sharing your feelings you know that's not sharing that's leaking when that book came out it was immediately a best-seller and it changed my life overnight overnight I mean I was desperately in debt hadn't paid my rent in time ever owed had owed Amex for ten years without making a single payment owed the IRS hadn't even filed it was in very very very insecure place at age 44 suddenly people were offering me things and offering me opportunities and I think if I did I was old enough and I up enough already that I just said you know I realized this is a lucky break was a lot unlikely to get another so I'd be very careful choices in that environment was very determined to not up I didn't go for easy money I didn't grab the first thing I did not give Food Network the show they wanted and I said no a lot to what seemed like a lot of money well look what's good for you in the short run is not necessarily good for you in a long run you know you're starting out as a writer you've written one book and somebody you got a TV show and somebody offers you a million dollars to you know represent that anti-diarrhea medication well that's a lot of money in the short run but you're always gonna be that guy with the shits I've admittedly I have very contradictory impulses here I'm I'm old school in a lot of ways I think you should at least know how to make a beef bourguignon correctly according to the original recipe to the degree that anything can be authentic you should know how to you know some dishes to me like cacio e pepe or you know traditional Italian pastas I get really pissy of people riff on them you know you put chicken in a carbonara you lost me it's unforgivable sin against God but on the other hand you know you know they're guys that came out of blues and R&B who turned out to be Jimi Hendrix you know there are people who can riff on and improvise on classics and create whole new wonderful worlds and what is authentic is mostly meaningless any Lennon it the tomato is not authentic Italian and it came from the new world of Chinese food is always evolving so it's protective and instinctively hostile to new as I can be I know too many really creative chefs and I understand the changing world is it pleasurable I guess is the benchmark for me if you're gonna mess with a classic are you making something more dazzling that says look at me and how smart I am or are you in some way improving it is it pleasurable is it chicken Caesar more pleasurable than a plain Caesar I think not I think the chicken takes away but that's my opinion I'm relentlessly pathologically a punctual I think I think that comes from all those years as a chef that is a more importantly as a cook you know can you showed up late as a cook you're letting your people down in a very tangible way somebody else has to physically do the work do the setup or you lose the shift or you get fired as a chef cooks who showed up late who were disorganized and couldn't keep a lot of stuff going on in their heads they failed and when they fell we all went down with them so I am a relentlessly you know impossibly unhealthily you know anal-retentive of you know obsessive-compulsive you know clean up after my oh and I'm cooking I'm cleaning up after myself constantly keep things organized I write lists I keep my schedule up-to-date I am never late and as part of that if I say to you I'm gonna meet you tomorrow at you know 12 minutes after 5:00 to see John wick 7:00 I will be there at you know 5:02 hanging out across the street discreetly observing the scene what time you show up and I'll be making some very important decisions based on your arrival time it's a curse and a blessing but I think everything important I ever learned I learned I learned as a is that as a dishwasher when there's a cook you show up on time you organize you get you well you know you stay organized and clean up after yourself you think about the people you work with you respect the people you work with and like I said you do the best you can

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Length: 14min 6sec (846 seconds)

Published: Mon Jun 11 2018