>> oliver, it's great to have you on the show. a new movie related to the drug war, mexican cartels issues that are topical here today with everything going on. >> less of a documentary. traffic, i loved it, it told me a lot but this is more of a hypothetical fiction. it's based on a novel by don winslow and proposes the idea because california has a big growing industry and medical marv and we have the best we'd in the world. i'm telling you that from my own experience of 40 years. jamaican we'd, and because americans are techy minded and mad chemists, they have taken the afghan seeds and brought them to california, rededicated

themselves and made the finest seeds in the world finest grass you can smoke and as a result the mexican cartels which basically produce a lot of [bleep] insectside we'd and sell it in heavy volume want to get into the california business with our young people, and they offer them a deal that's hard to refuse. it's certainly like a wal-mart coming in and saying i want to be your partner. but the boys fight back and the girl fights back and it turns into quite a debacle. >> you look at the history of your filmion and drugs play a big roll. is that intentional or is it just you're tracted to that narrative. >> i'm attracted to that mara active. i'm the timothy leery

generation, i'm all. >>ed up, and i feel that it's part of our liberation. it's part of our right, you know, the right to as you know to sex, to marriage. you have been a liberal and i really resent the government trying to tell us what to do with our lives. it's also been one of my bug a boos since i was a kid. i wasn't good with authority figures. and i think that's the best part of america standing for what we believe in. i remember when it started, i was one of the first. i felt it right away, i was one of the victims coming back from vietnam. nixon declared the war on drugs, war on poverty war on drugs war on terror. it hasn't worked. it's completely backfired. >> i by the way could not agree more and have been very aggressive in terms of my opposition and proud to be aggressive as a sitting politician, not an expolitician during my tenure. why is that the case? what is it about this country

with all those facts facing, why haven't we been able to move in a rational direction. >> many experts have gone into it. the war on the border has been written, but on a large big picture basis is because we can't tell other people what to do and we keep doing that, we try to impose our values on other people. it just doesn't seem to work. it's doubly ironic because our values, our citizens want our drugs, cocaine grass, and pay heavily for prescription drugs. we have drives at human beings and the government seems to want to have it's like prohibition didn't work with alcohol won't work with drugs. never will. >> what is it about politicians? this is something i question oftentimes what i guess it about the incentives that allow us to drive a policy that's

failed, costs money, costs lives, impacts society so aggressively. what is it, democrats and republicans all sides? >> i'm giving you broad stroke. i'm not an expert there. two drives, one would be a latent puritanism in the country, going back to the beginnings of america there's always been the drive to stamp out sin, sex alcohol, to stamp out marijuana which would lead to evil, and the other thing is money. it's a huge factor. now that people have been embedded in the drug war for 40 years and there's a giant drug enforcement agency that is pulling down a huge budget, several, what is it, a huge budget. more than 50% of the inmates are there because of drugs and what they call victimless crimes and the prison industry is enormous. california, our state spend more

on prisons than we do higher education. governor schwarzenegger tried to pass a reform and it was defeated by the prison guards union, the lobbying efforts on behalf of the drug war the police and the also local police, lets not forget the amount of federal aid they get to fight the drug war. it all adds up to money. >> speaking of money you've been very politically active your entire life, never willing -- never shied away from a fight. you're always happy to lean in. >> i admire activists. you have to put your life out there, it takes hours days, you go to jail, knock on doors. i'm not an activist. i'm out spoken i'm a dramatist. i make movies, write i'm asked to say a few things as a citizen, and i do express, i'm not taking the attitude that i

make movies that's all i do and it's just a movie, no i don't. >> what is the idea you can be creative in one part of your life and criticized for that's all you should be able to do, how dare you have a voice? >> there's always those who tell you how to live your life, what your values should be and what you cannot do. part of what i said earlier is i resist the you cannot do this. the cannot drivers me x-rays. >> is that why you're still in movie making? >> yeah, not to change much, because i want to express my own feelings. i am for lack of a better word a fill i am maker dramatist. you get so much drama in life and then your energy goes. i love history. i love fiction, action movies. >> interesting. >> i've been able to make action movies as well as history. i've been able to take the most complex case, j.f.k., thousands

of pages written and condense it down to a three hour movie. for me, it was great satisfaction. >> was that a drive in early childhood, did you always have some connection there? >> victor hugo those novelists take huge chunks of history and try to make sense of it. >> when you look back at the body of work, is it what you're working on now that you're most proud of? what defines your career, is there a work that you've done that sort of defines what you are? >> it sounds like a cliche, but you work as hard on the small ones as the big ones. you're trying to make clear for yourself and hopefully your audience something complex and difficult to make clear. it's been a growth. i can tell you where i was in life by the films i did. in some ways as a director, i'm

an actor-director because in a sense i become the film for a period of time. my style changes from film to film. i don't use the same style. i mitt have different themes in mind, but j.f.k., different themes. >> what has changed in hollywood? what's changed in movie making over the course of your career? >> that's subject to argument. i would say it's the same old story, which is tell the story, and that's hard, because people don't pay attention unless you tell a good story. i think you have to make it exciting and have some action in it, keep it going keep the tension from the audience. that's my rules, but a lot of people would disagree with me and they take a different approach. i'm not going to say that's wrong. hollywood itself has gotten much more corporate like the world. >> like the world. >> and these are the people who run the place are not interested in making movies per se. that's content. there are content providers that

diminish the roles of directors and individuals to a large degree, because there's so much competition, and economically i guess you could calm it a race to the bottom is what the teamsters might call it. it's become anti union. in other words, the wages have gone down, the costs up like the rest of the country the marketing costs have gone up. television has driven the movie business because it cost oh so much to put an ad on television. everything goes in the marketing direction, but the actual coast of the real labor of makingle movie that pretty much stayed the same as in the labor market. it's not a pretty situation for a young person coming into it. >> i imagine. >> over the years, media has evolved or from your perspective devolved. what's your perspective of the

noose. >> i get better news onal jazeera or russian television. not everyone has self interest, but french news and british news to some degree is far more sophisticated, but even so, i don't know that you can get really what's happening in a 30 to 60 minute span. i think there needs to be real analysis. it's not a headline. it's just not a headline. >> without getting too political, what's the state of american politics i don't mean your perspective. beseemingly aren't learning from our past or reliving it over and over and over again and we go through cycles. we anticipate dramatic change but a lot of folks, you're not seeing it. >> it's very hard that's such a -- it's about education, it's about thinking, it's about becoming more conscious for your life. how can you be alive for my age and not think back to when i was a baby and not think about the

bomb being dropped on riroshima. you have to investigate kennedy, but how did we get here? that's what we do with our lives if we're intelligent. how can we go and live our life like a wall street broker, you read the news every day the same news happens, i'm older than you, i've seen the same news over and over again a different beat, a different basis. how can you live like that? you'd be unhappy with your life and you'll live your life and you wouldn't have learned anything. >> why are we living such a life. >> because the news needs to make money and create excitement. every day, they have to create a new cycle and make it exciting. >> yeah. >> and they do a standard job of it, so it's television. >> so minor, fundamental challenge. >> these little things add up,

and that's what takes the titanic down is tremendous arrogance. we're here to talk and tell our people what to do. on top of it we send people overseas to be brutally chopped up and a waste of billions and trillions of dollars that we need to desperately address our own internal affairs. >> what do you make of the occupy movement and for that matter the tea party movement is it two sides of the same coin, or are they completely different. >> in some ways, it is. i think they both want -- they both essentially want better government and they're both -- but they want less government. there's kind of a contradiction. the tea party wants less government but want more war more defense money, they want to have all the -- they want to cut the entitlements, and the occupy

movement is divided. part of them are for reform and the other part of to take it down and start over. >> when you see what happened with j.p. morgan and what's happening on wall street and what hasn't happened in terms of reforms after 2008 and you've chronicled these into two movies that are certainly iconic in this country, what do you make of that? >> i'm not a blind vigilante that wants it is to hang all the bankers, but there is a fundamental economic imbalance still going on in this country. we have to find a way not to tax everybody that's making money. it's really to tax the speculation trades. they turn over money. the biggest money makers in america today are still the hedge funds. these guys don't create much. they really essentially rob the economy. >> a lot of folks know that and we see these trends for decades now, since the 1970's as it

relates to the middle class 1980's notably, over those years, you've gone through swings, democrats, republicans all the hope and promise across the board but things get worse and worse. at what point do people wake up and do more than just shake the machine by occupying or going on the tea party? what fundamentally can change. >> you have to have reform. to reform you to have change laws. to change laws, you have to have legislators that are responsive to the people's wants. you can't do that if citizens promote corporations. one wag said if corporations are people, i'd sure like to see texas execute one. >> it might have been high tower who said that. how do you i mean, if it's the politics are still essential then from your perspective. >> politics is the art of the possible, the old definition. it's the only way. >> how to you change the

incentives of politician. >> money, money, get the money out of politics, do whatever it takes. >> with the closing moment, who are the heroes the folks you remember, the guiding examples. >> my life is filled with heroes, filled with them. that's another thing we do 10 beastliests, which i don't agree to at all. >> too limiting. >> you have to go back to socrates, 50 greeks i admire, there's about two dozen romans, you have to go to ever are a. i'm reading books right now about michael motaine. he does have lessons you learn. movies, i love movies, always have and learn from them by watching them a second and third time, things i didn't learn the first time. if we didn't make another movie ever again, there's enough there that people could be very happy. >> yeah. that's great, great to have you,

oliver. >> thank you gavin, you're a very kind host. you didn't tell me very much about yourself, i told you about myself. >> that's the way it is on the show. >> thank you. >> when we come back lessons from new york times columnist for the president of the united states. new chinese restaurant. >>i was going to audition for the school play. >>today i was going to tell my girlfriend that i loved her. >>i was going to play cards with the guys. >>i was supposed to turn 18 today.

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i started by asking describe this fundamental thing, what world are we living in? >> what world are we living in? well the world has just in the last seven, eight years, gone from connected to hyper connected and my view is that this is changing everything. it is the biggest thing in the world affecting more other things, because it affects education, the workplace, and how we interact. in my own lingo, we've gone from flat world 1.0 to not world 2.0 but it's all been disguised by 9/11. i call this world from connected to hyper connected the great inflection, because it's a huge inflection. i believe it's the biggest inflection point over the last decade, this whole flattening

process since the invention of the printing press, only when the printing press was invented. we adjust justed over decades and centuries. we're having to adjust to the hyper connecting of the world in a period of years. so what do i think we need in the next president? three things, first and foremost, a plan to deal with these things at the real scale of the problem. at the real scale of the problem. for me, don't tell me that we're going to get all the money from warren buffet and his pals, ok, because we're not. don't tell me that we're going to get out of this problem and 97% have americans won't have to pay a dime. if you tell me that, you've lost my attention. it doesn't mean to me that you have a problem, you have a solution to the problem have the sail of the problem. that's the first thing we need.

we do need a plan that is fair. ok, the rich have done very well over the last few decades. i count myself as very fortunate. the wealthy have to pay more, everybody has to pay something. we are all in this together. ok? we all have to be in this together. and lastly, i think we need a plan that is aspirational, that isn't just about balancing the budget. it's about making the country great again, insuring that we will pass on the american dream. i'm not a tax day guy, i'm a fourth of july guy. we want something that gets people out of their chair to sacrifice. lastly, we need a vision, and i'll end here. we need a vision of where we're going, so i think the vision for america is obvious. we want america of the 21st 21st century, we want america

today, we want what cape canaveral was to america in the 1960's to be what america will be for the world today. what do i mean? cape canaveral was the place we launched our one big moon shot. we're not going to have one big moon shot today to propel us forward. i want america to be the launching pad where everyone in the world wants to come to launch their moon shot, to start their company. i want them to want to come here because we have the best education, the best infrastructure the best i want electual property and protection rules, the best rule of law, the best ports, the most open immigration property and best funded research. if everyone in the world wants to come here and launch their moon shoot everything will flow through this. we want to be that launching pad. when we get wrapped around the

axle of what we really need is fairness or to cut taxes, ok, we are so giving people the ability to get out of their chair, and march forward. >> if you haven't yet, take time to read tom's latest book how american fell behind in the world it in vented and how we can come back. >> emotional equation, after the break. >>there's not a problem that exists in america today that hasn't been solved by somebody somewhere. >>(narrator) share your views with gavin at politicallydirect.com, a direct line to the gavin newsom show. >>focus on the folks that are making a difference, that are not just dreamers, but doers. >>(narrator) join the conversation.

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>> great he to have you on the show. this is a strange thing for both of us. >> yes. >> we've known each other for too long so this can't be a very serious interview. you wrote a book, i picked this up, i thought it was a business book. you're a business guy you've got 40 plus hotels around the world, you're a business guy and here you are talking about emotion and i've got to say this is more like a self-help book than it is a business book, or am i wrong? >> daniel goman wrote a book called emotional intelligence and proved that two thirds of the success of business leaders has to dohadhas e.q., emotional

intelligence. i went through emotional ability camp several years ago as the ceo of my company. i didn't i was going to write this type of book, but i learned enough from it to learn that leaders are the emotional thermostats of the groups they lead. >> right. >> if we don't understand our own emotions and have some level of being able to regulate them, then we create this contagious effect within the organizations we lead. >> you come out of stanford business school. you had sort of a framework of discipline as it relates to the education you received. you come out and you start with the one small hotel did you have this framework in mind? did you understand what you just said? >> what i did know in business school, i was the youngest guy in my class straight from stanford and i talked with someone when i first came on

campus, first day i was there and he had been to morgan stanley and had all the pedigree and i didn't. he said to me what do you know well? i said i think i know people well and he just started laughing. he said what's that going to serve you in terms of m.b.a.? i said i think we manage people. he went on and talked to someone else. that was 28 years ago actually 30 years ago when i went to business school when i first started. at that time, i guess i was at a place where i thought well, emotional intelligence in the context of business wasn't very important. when i started my first little motel in the tenderloin, rough neighborhood, i learned quickly that people are drawn to a leader based upon not just the words and charisma which lots of us have and you have in spades, but their trust in the person and their sense that they get the authenticity and heartbeat

of a person. you want to follow someone or be part of what that person is creating. ultimately, i realized i was the chief emotions officer not just the chief executive officer, really, i was someone, it wasn't that everybody would come to me with their problems and talk, i did a certain amount of that, it was more i could walk into a room and within five minutes of talking to group of people on the staff, i could sort of diagnose what the emotional challenges were at that particular property. that's important. >> was that, i mean if you were going to define your strongest skill set, it's that, ability to read people intuitive sense? >> yeah, i would say two things, one would be the ability to read people, create trust and help people live up to their potential, which is sort of what my last book was about and the other is i'm creative as a boutique hotelery of understanding concept hotels and

doing something that hasn't been done before. >> you're own emotional equation, you have all this success, build this brand, competing against really in many respects yourself. you've proven everything you can possibly prove to yourself. i don't want to overstate, but truly, you are inspirational figure, involved in the community, you've already written a couple books by this time. life from the outside seems fabulous, though we are in a downturn, 2008, you're struggling like everybody else but not just from a business framework, but emotional. >> i was in a place four years ago where it was very clear that me that i didn't want to go doing what i was doing anymore. in work, we have have a job, career or calling. hopefully in life, we find our opportunity to find our calling in the context of our work. sometimes our calling comes from outside our work. for me, i have a calling and it

had deflated to a job. i knew in 2008 what we needed in this second time in a lifetime downturn was a c.e.o. who absolutely wanted to be sitting in that chair and that wasn't me. that's one thing i was struggling with, running out of money, launches hotels around the state of california, difficult launches going on. i had a son going to prison wrongfully, i had a relationship ending that i didn't want to end. >> a friend that committed suicide. >> i had a friend that committed suicide, so i was really not making sense of my emotions. i felt there was a tical wave inside of me and i didn't know how surf it. man searching for meaning was a book i read and a guy who was a psychologist who believed that the fuel in life is meaning and

that that's really what gives those people a sense of vitality. on a bad day read that book. he was living in a concentration camp. >> you hit that day and said i know about this book, i may have read it before. >> i didn't have it in the context of where i am now because i felt i was in mental prison. >> it was that intense? >> i thought about that golden gate bridge. >> it was that bad? you were thinking those type of thoughts. >> i was, and i know lots of people who have. i was not close to actually taking those steps like my friend, chip, did. five friends of mine have taken their lives in the last four years. when i did know is i wanted to try to make practical that man search for meaning book but the bottom line, it shifted me that man shift for meaning book, i

want to turn it into something i can use as a mantra on a daily basis and i came up with despair equals suffering minus meaning which is the equation that started me out. you can understand the logic of your emotions fund how they relate to each other. that equation, when you're going through a difficult time in life concentration camp, doing whatever it is, bad recession to suffer if you're buddhist, it's the first noble truth of booedism that suffering is ever present. meaning is variable. what i really realized for myself is that i needed to actually use this equation on a daily basis. three or four months later, i decided to introduce it to our top 80 executives because i saw a bunch of suffering in the room in 2009 and it was looking pretty you wilily in the hotel business. i started to realize that these

equations are meaningful not just in a emotional base but to help leaders understand how to make sense of their own person. >> were you developing the own framework of emotional equations as a framework for your book or your own personal receive actualization. >> i had no idea i would write a book. i knew for me personally, i am not a crook i just knew that i needed something, and i didn't want to medicate myself and i chose not to do that and i just wanted something, and so the equation was the thing i would say to myself sometimes 60, 70 times a day as just a reminder, where's the meaning, what's the lesson? actually at the end of the week i'd say ok, so what emotions did i learn? a great old study show women who actually had their teen years in the depression were much better able to handle being a widow

later in life than widows that actually did not grow up during the depression. during the depression they learned emotional skills that they were able to use later in life, so that's what i started to ask myself, what emotional i'm going through emotional boot camp, what are the emotional muscles i'm learning right now. the first week, courage authenticity vulnerability, who youhumility. that's how i started teaching emotions within the company. >> then you decided to sell the company. >> i knew i didn't want to be ceo. part of the reason i went into the deep dive is i realize this calling was no longer a calling. i really loved writing books and giving speeches. i wanted a simpler life. i worked joy de vivre and now

wanted to live it. we could bring in a new great ceo, john whose father started hyatt. it was my get out of jail free card. >> now you spend time having consummated that deal writing. >> yep. >> giving speeches. >> yep. >> do you have curriculum you've designed? >> yeah, i've done a number of workshops and classes and leadership programs around both emotional equations as well as my last book. what's interesting is that in the last two downturns, a dot com bust in the bay area largest hotel in the bay area and we had this great recession. both times i didn't turn to my stanford m.b.a. books i learned, i turned to a psychologist. it worked for me. what i do now is i work an awful lot with people at this

intersection of psychologist and, how to understand, how to create organization that has great psycho hygiene. there is a phenomena that everybody's in unison and the leader is perfectly altogether. what happens is the boat actually lifts out of the water they call that swing. for me, is how do you get everybody together in unison such that the boat comes out of the water. when it comes out of the water moving forward there's less friction and it goes faster. that's what i try to do in helping other companies and organizations. >> just as you turned to mazlow and franco, i want to turn after the break to how you turned failures in the past to success when we come back. great. >>the dominoes are starting to fall.

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>> we're talking during the break about men being disproportionately impacted during the downturn. i imagine for are men i'm not going to suggest the one sitting right here asking you the questions, but emotional equation, just the emotional side of things sometimes can be very difficult. >> generally speaking, self help emotions books are not popular sellers with men but 60% of the reviews on his amazon for this book are for men. it's partly because men have had a tougher time of this downturn and haven't known what to do with their emotions. this book is about the logic of our emotions or finding the logic of our emotions. we need to be very careful about this. i've had five friends all men who committed suicide, 16 months ago, in the downturn and this what we need to do is actually try to help people understand the internal weather that's going on and the storm that happens isn't going to last

forever. our internal weather is like the external weather except for when you're in the middle of that blizzard, it feels like it's never going to end. understanding what's going on inside is helping people and definitely helping men. >> so this is your fourth book. >> it's noted new york time's best seller. how different is this work from your first book where you talked about rebels. you've got here you are, ready fire, aim, sail forward fast. it's a sort of frame here. it's obviously by definition, more reflective. >> no doubt a lot of wisdom has been built with a lot of skinned knees and some scar tissue. the first book was, you know, definitely entrepreneurial let's get them kind of book and richard branson wrote the forward. i wrote marketing that matters

and peak about organizations. >> and the more personal side of leadership and life. >> and very self reflective. you talk about pretty much everything. >> i do. >> your father, almost the way i read it, it's as if he gave you permission. >> he did. >> to be yourself. >> he did. he did that before when i came out as a gay man in my early 20's. he wanted me to be the 35-year-old approximates of the united states. he had high aspirations for me, but it took him a while to get used to me being a gay man because he thought i wouldn't be ambitious, and it turned out i would. he liked me and my company, and why would i want to move on and be a writer. i said when i was 12 i want to be a writer when i grow up and he said most writers are poor or sigh cottic or both.

i got an idea that a writer isn't what i wanted to be. >> i imagine you've been marked as all of us approximate some failure. >> a bunch of them. >> give me examples of somewhere you had a profound impact or that was a moment you learned something, moved on, turned the page and found a different course, different direction. >> i've had a lot of failures. one is the most noble experiment experiment and experience have the same root. life is an experiment. if you think that way, you're more willing to have a failure. we created a luxury camp ground on highway one on the california coast in an area that has sort of odd weather, not great weather for camping, not your typical l.a. county kind of beautiful -- >> fog. >> a lot of wind. we decided to launch it and keep our prices pretty high, because

nobody ever had a product like this, a luxury camp ground. it's a bunch of tents with mattresses in them and heated down comforters and bath robes. we also had a lodge. we figured we were setting the price for what it's worth so we set the price high. even though i think the experience was pretty good for people, by setting it high, we limited the market and bewent into the dot com bust and it made it harder. i decided with vitale, it was going to be a good product. >> this one you built from scratch. >> from across the street from the bay. i wanted to make sure people would have a phenomenal experience and say this is a great value and tell their

friends. when they tell their friends they listen, a year later or five years later they come back and say it's a good value, they don't know the context anymore. the hotel was in the third or fourth month it was open had the highest occupancy of any luxury hotel in san francisco screaming success for seven years. >> things that have served you or those failures that you continue to have deep regret and haven't provided the meaning. >> i'm still figuring out the meaning related to the last relationship, it was an eight year relationship that ended and single still now and happily single, but trying to figure out what went wrong there, what was my part in. it i'd been in an 11 year relationship, an eight year relationship. i don't want a six month relationship. i'd like the next one to last the rest of my life. i'm still reflecting on what my

part was. i think one of the pieces is i get so wrapped up in my work sometimes that it can mean i don't have much time to invest in the family life. >> best advice you've ever received? >> i think it was well, you know richard branson said something that was pretty good from a business perspective, i am the market should be your mantra. if you're not in love with the product you're creating stop spending time on it. a lot of companies are creating products they don't care about. if you're an entrepreneur doing that stop today, and find something that makes you passionate. >> chip, thanks for coming on. >> it's great to be here. >> in our final moments my thoughts on today's guests, taking a stand and making a difference. we'll be right back.

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few others are going. >>it doesn't get anymore real than this. >>occupy! "vanguard" new episodes coming soon. only on current tv. >> conviction's not a quality that comes easily to people and one that's harder to sustain particularly in the spotlight. all three of my guests have been standing firm on shaky ground. they support ideas that don't always make you popular, but it's some kind of conviction that ultimately leads to forward thinking that's essential for our ability to evolve. we have to take on controversial issues to uncover better solutions. tom uses his books as a long

standing columnist as a megaphone for his ideas expounding on globalization and energy independence, in ramifications of terrorism. these are heady issues you requiring a blends of open questions and potential solutions that inspire readers to continue the conversation well beyond the pages of "the new york times." and chip brings about his ideas on emotional intelligence to the business world. his theory of identifying and tapping into the psychological needs of customers and employees help make him one of the most respected hoteliera in our country. oliver stone heavy and controversial topics in films, and his latest work explores drug culture and the war on drugs. i've long been an advocate for the virtue of failing.

you can't move forward without the courage to take risk. i know this as a business owner and as mayor. you need to reward people for taking that occasional risk and not always succeeding. at the end of the day mistakes are a portal of discovery. california and particularly the bay area are at its best when we i am brace the culture of entrepreneurialism and forward thinking. supporting gay marriage may not have won me many friends when i was mayor, but it was the right thing to do, and despite the political risk, it was president obama's conviction in supporting gay rights last month that brought us a step closer to that reality. it was the right thing to do. tom, chip, and oliver well, by their own admissions of all made mistakes along their careers but would never have learned from those mistakes had they been afraid of criticism being occasionally wrong. it's this kind of thought

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