Ben Francis, Gymshark Founder: Entrepreneurship & Innovation
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There's also a danger in acting of identifying yourself as an actor. We have to try to identify ourselves as human beings first, and our jobs second. I'm Sam, I act sometimes… not I am Sam, I am an actor.
Life is moving so fast now. It used to be 50–100-year cycles between great inventions. Now every year we have game-changing inventions and innovations. You might think you're working on something utterly game changing, but there's a chance that a couple of months from now, you will be totally superseded.
The evidence is that 50% of young heroin users who are under 19 will die by the age of 50. It's a terrible danger. People with alcohol problems have got a full 400% increase in expectation of death, than people without alcohol problems.
I think when you have early trauma that gets disrupted, your mind gets separated from your body. Your mind becomes this sort of distracted, dissociated place to go when this alarm in your body—if your parents are screaming at each other or your dad's an alcoholic—there's only so much a child can take.
Ultimately, there are no values in the secular world that can replace the complete happiness people find in the vision of the face of God.
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