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  • This is like mission, Impossible meet saw and some weird horoscope.

  • But got it.

  • Michael, you're about to take Vanity Fair's Proust questionnaire.

  • You'll be asked questions in rapid succession in order to reveal your true nature.

  • Once a question has been read out, you will have five seconds to answer before we move on.

  • Once we have completed all of the questions, you will have a chance to reflect on and even correct your answers.

  • I accept.

  • Let's go.

  • What is your idea of perfect happiness?

  • All of my sensory stimulating?

  • I'm saying whether it's gonna be a visual, uh, audio taste buds.

  • Physically, just everything being stimulated.

  • One time, I think I'll be completely happy.

  • What is your greatest fear?

  • Greatest fear is being for gotten.

  • What is the trait you most deplore in yourself being too easy going?

  • What is the trait you most deplore in others?

  • Lack of compassion.

  • Which living person do you most admire?

  • I'm to my parents.

  • What is your greatest extravagance?

  • Maybe my shoe collection?

  • What is your current state of mind?

  • Extreme ambition.

  • What do you consider the most overrated virtue past?

  • What do you most dislike about your appearance?

  • That's a good way trying to think of something because it is a good question trying to get answers.

  • What most like my parents.

  • I'm going to say we could go back to it.

  • Let's go back to that one.

  • That's good.

  • What is the quality you most like in a woman?

  • E think nurturing and sense of humor.

  • Which words or phrases do you most overuse?

  • All good?

  • All good?

  • Yeah, it's all good.

  • Way too much.

  • What?

  • Or who is the greatest love of your life?

  • Food.

  • When and where were you?

  • Happiest?

  • I think when I'm out of the water, which talent would you most like to have?

  • E thing to be able to play all instruments.

  • If you could change one thing about yourself, what would it be?

  • More carefree?

  • What do you consider your greatest achievement?

  • I haven't done yet.

  • If you were to die and come back as a person or a thing, what would it be between a dolphin and the falcon?

  • Where would you most like toe live?

  • New Yorker Tokyo.

  • What is your most treasured possession?

  • I'm saying my car in my PlayStation.

  • What is your favorite occupation?

  • Chef?

  • What is your most marked characteristic.

  • Mean, intuitive.

  • What do you most value in your friends?

  • Their sense of honesty, Like they don't care.

  • They treat me like me no matter what I have.

  • Who?

  • Your favorite writers, Balthasar Garcia is one of them, Uh, to not see coats.

  • Another who is your hero of fiction?

  • Pass.

  • Which historical figure do you most identify with Marcus Garvey and Mandela?

  • Who are your heroes in real life?

  • My parents.

  • What is it that you most dislike?

  • I'm gonna keep it.

  • Keep it light.

  • Okra.

  • What is your greatest regret?

  • Not investing in Sirius Radio when the stock was like $3.

  • Last question is, what is your motto?

  • A bunch turning nothing into something.

  • And that concludes the proofs.

  • Questionnaire e was like a pressure.

  • Okay, got it.

  • Okay.

  • Cool.

  • I don't.

  • So how do you feel after those questions?

  • Those heavy questions.

  • I feel that there's so many things that there's not just one answer to that.

  • I'm very complex.

  • That there's, like, some things I'm very particular about others, you know, it takes a few.

  • The answer is a combination of a few different things.

  • Speaking of combinations, you said that if you could die and come back as a person or a thing.

  • You come back as between a dolphin and a falcon.

  • Why those animals?

  • I mean, just the perspective of being able to fly.

  • I think Falcons a super majestic, you know, always been in tow and dolphins air like, so carefree and extremely intelligent.

  • And they have fun.

  • You know what I'm saying?

  • Like they have.

  • They have a good time and I love the ocean.

  • I love being in the water in terms of what you most dislike about your appearance.

  • You said, Let's go back to that one.

  • Let's go.

  • You know, I'm I'm comfortable in my you know what I'm saying?

  • My own skin.

  • I was like, if I had a nit pick, you know, I don't know, maybe a little bit taller.

  • E I was like, 6465 Maybe I don't know on.

  • Then you said that your current state of mind is extreme ambition.

  • Is that always your state of mind?

  • Or just currently it's always that I think I'm always like thinking about what's next.

  • You know what's what's the next you know?

  • You know, thing for me.

  • Toe to solve.

  • I like I like, like problem solving.

  • I like I like challenges.

  • I like raising the bar from one thing to a next.

  • I think that's you know, it's ah, it's a gift and a curse right now especially, you know, from from, like, this pandemic, you know, being kind of slowed down a lot.

  • Naturally, I think I'm just like I'm even more ready to kind of, like, get going for the talent you'd most like to have You said to be able to play all instruments, any in particular.

  • Okay, let your guitar and piano, I think piano, Let's guitar.

  • The two things that Teoh Instruments I would love to like, Master.

  • You know, I think those those those two for sure.

  • Do you think you'll try?

  • I've tried the guitar at one point and I've tried the piano.

  • I don't think I want to.

  • Bad enough yet.

  • I will.

  • One day when I when I really decided to like All right, I'm gonna do this because once I set my mind on something, that's like, I'm pretty like I'm pretty, like, dogmatic with it, so we'll see if it gets to that point.

  • You know, you had to slightly contradicting answers.

  • For if you could change one thing about yourself, you said more carefully and for the trade you most deplore in yourself.

  • You said being too easy going.

  • Yeah, because, like, easy going for me is like more or less like, very adaptable, like I could be okay, like anywhere.

  • You know, I'm saying, which sometimes leaves room for being non specific, like you just kind of like It's like like you kind of go with the flow with anything.

  • It's like whatever.

  • And that's something I was like kind of like sometimes wish I was very more specific and like, be very like what I'm saying like, very specific with certain things the carefree element comes from or of ah, like excuse my my friends not giving a You know what I'm saying?

  • And like, you know, in which lends itself to being more specific, because if you like, if you didn't care, you wouldn't care to say the things you really you really cared about it.

  • That makes sense.

  • You said that men intuitive is your most marked characteristic.

  • Have you always felt intuitive?

  • Yeah, I think I kind of grew up with My intuition is crazy.

  • My gut instinct.

  • I've always listened to it.

  • You can see that I've always listened to it.

  • I've listened to it more as I got as I've gotten older, but I think I credit that to 85 90% of my decisions.

  • And it kind of leans on that.

  • Your greatest fear, you said, there's being for gotten, Would you say that's accurate?

  • I've lost people in life, you know, from at a younger age.

  • You know, Thio recently, you know, and I think there's been times where, you know, you know, people that when I was younger, you know, I've, you know, maybe forgotten a birthday, you know?

  • Or, you know, we go a couple of weeks and not think about them.

  • You know what I'm saying?

  • I would feel like damn like Okay, damn.

  • If I could not think about somebody that I was that close to or had this type of relationship with what happens, you know, over time with other what I'm saying other things.

  • It was kind of a more like a sense of mortality, Like being like being the for gotten, you know, it was probably one of my one of my biggest fears.

  • I think at a point in time it would it would drive me to like to work hard, you know, to to leave impact.

  • You know, that that goes beyond my physical body, you know, life, life short.

  • You know what I think?

  • Maybe this past year I thought about it more times than not, Um, you just always wanted, you know, you wanna you wanna do the most you can and get the most out of the time that you have on make it count.

  • You said your motto is turning nothing into something.

  • What does that mean to you?

  • I think I think that's something that I've always felt.

  • It's something that I've always done and it really just kind of like defined or kind of helped explain why we go so hard.

  • It's like I've been blessed to have, you know, to accomplish, accomplish you know things.

  • And, you know, in a short amount of time that I've been here and it's always about the next thing.

  • The next thing is next things about the journey, you know, it's not it's not.

  • It's not about one individual like, you know, accomplishment.

  • Why do I enjoy doing what I do or, you know, it's the taking.

  • Nothing taking this idea, this thing, whatever it is and creating and turning something like this.

  • That journey is that process that I think I'm addicted to.

  • And maybe it'll fade as I get older.

  • Who knows?

  • I don't know, but for now, it's just like a illness.

  • Appetite for your mottoes.

  • You said a bunch.

  • What other models do you have?

  • A live your dash?

  • You know what I'm saying is kind of like, you know, you're born 87 dash, you know, whatever.

  • You're gonna expire.

  • You know?

  • I'm saying, just live it.

  • Live that live that space, You know?

  • That's something.

  • I heard it somewhere a long time ago.

  • I can't remember exactly where, but something I really like.

  • I read it out loud.

  • Oh, yeah, that's I can get with that and then lead by example.

  • You know, leading by example.

  • Moving silence is another one.

  • You know?

  • You know, just you ain't gotta announce everything that you're doing, you know, you just move quietly.

  • You know, if you're the quietest person in the room is the smartest, you know?

  • Listen, do you think these questions overall have revealed your true nature revealed Thio.

  • Everybody else.

  • E thing for me is like self reflection For me is something that I like to do, You know, like people that are close to me, way talk about, you know, these types of things, you know, have these discussions.

  • I think that keeps us honest.

  • Like we call each other out way, create space thio vent.

  • And, you know, I'm saying sometimes you just gotta talk it out.

  • You can't keep it bottled up, you know?

  • So, uh, we have healthy talks like this often.

  • So, uh, revealing for me?

  • Not so much.

  • But, you know, for, you know, whoever is watching and listening, maybe it gives them a little bit more insight.

  • Uh, you know, on me, you know, so, yeah.

This is like mission, Impossible meet saw and some weird horoscope.

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