Recording here, beginning at 1:07:41. I started out thinking about what you WANT from me here tonight, what you WANT me to say, how you WANT me to distinguish your momentous event. But then I realized, I’m retiring, so I don’t care! Then I began to think about what you NEED from me, and things…
What I have on offer tonight, for all of us, is a little boost of confidence, but not in the way you expect.
You’ve somehow come to believe there’s this grand crowd scrutinizing your every move, checking your performance against a script, only too happy to criticize when you miss a cue or flub a line. But here is your freedom:
You need NO. More precisely, you need what happens to you when you hear NO.