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Show Russell Jacobs 24 February 2010 car? No one cares if you're drivin' a Ferrari. Nobody cares [laughs]. It's the person who's driving it. MD: Weren't you just tellin' me about bu yin' a Maserati earlier? [Both laugh]. RJ: Only in jest. I would never-it would never happen. No it's uh-to me, the building blocks, I think-it's made me see, I guess a better light. Life should be simple. It shouldn't be compli-life is simple. People make it hard. People make it hard on themselves. We've all been given an amount of gray matter that, for the most part it functions if you use it right. But they don't think. They're just, ya know, they just do what everybody else is doing. They don't do their own thing. And, uh, if they'd just analyze what they do every day. It's just, it's become so routine. Life would be better for 'em. It would. So those, I think, starting out-I've always been, I've always wanted to keep things simple. I mean, life is complicated, but you don't have to make it so complicated that it's overwhelming. There's issues that come up, but it's things that are out of-that you really can't make a difference. Ya know, you just kinda have to let it go. But as far as yourself, you can manage your life to make it the best it can be, the very best it can be. And, uh, I don't think a lotta people know how to do that. MD: Well, that's interesting just going back to some of what we said, way earlier in the interview, about the way that climbers, kind of, by nature, have to come up with plans so that they can go ahead and pursue some of these climbing goals. Like, you have to come up with enough, ya know, an approach to make enough money so that you can go on that trip. So maybe some of that is attached to this attitude that you think is important to a healthy daily life. Does that-did you follow my logic there? 'Cause there was 18 |
