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Guy Laliberté

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“We were already black sheep there, the USO people in this village of Wolf mentality. You know, you have to understand this is all the old traditional families that are Derek Lyon from the founders of Quebec, you know, the people who got trolled in the boat by the French as bendings and built this country. And actually, it's very, it's not this wolf mentality because it's all very strong established family. So when you're a stranger coming there,”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Have a business decision, an emotional distress, a question about my decision to be made. This is where I'd find my answers. Every time I was coming there, I was planting the seeds of my question. And then I knew that when I come out of there, the answer would be there. Whatever decision I made, and they were pretty much all good. So this is where the evolution of the theater true on stilts. We were trying to grow and then Gilles said, okay, we'll do a winter version on Skype. And now they are in. I said, not for me. I'm not spending a winter here. I'm a beach bomber. I'm not a ski bomber. And this is where I start to talk about the project of a street performing festival in Bay St. Paul. And with Jill, what we did in 1982, we went into this village, which is very traditional painting. You know, this place is recognized by, oh, this is a beautiful place for artists that paint landscape and things like that.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“This is very peaceful things, and this Hawaiian sunset, this is where I start to think about project. Remember, every winter I was coming out of that was the second year of the not first year and then second. I went there three years before we did the Faith Foran, which I'll talk. But the sun was my inspiration moment. So I started to think about project, creating this. So my creative mind explode there. Okay. The reason what the name Saleh de Saleh is for two reasons. The inspiration of the son of the big island, okay, sunset, which are amazing. And at that time in the symbolic book of Sembal, Sun was the symbol of the energy of youth. So that was, this is the name of my company. It came later. But before that, while I was there, everyone thought I was going to add finding my old friends and just having, it became my Ealing Island that for the rest of my life. Every time.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The former that we hang out on the beach every day and perform on the naked beach on the non naked feet, there's party their fool party, and then I start to, for the first time in my life, got to what I believe still today the closest to meditation on my side. I'm not a meditating guy of life. I never stopped the answer and I had non-stop. But when I watch sunset,”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The island made me realize wait a minute because at the same time you hear about all those fights about religion and that and you say wait a minute it's like what is it and then you suddenly see a piece of land on earth that people live in peace with each other and respect something then you meet all those healer with potion with growing herbs and stuff like that and there's this healing spirit on the island you see people that are rhythm that doesn't exist on the North American continent there's a pace that is more toward the pace of the rhythm of the wave of the island or the wind instead of the subway rhythm and then you meet a bunch of”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Changed my life. This is where I start to get inspired. I connect with a Lua troops. I was doing my fire ants. I was playing accordion and the Italian restaurant going and usling a bag yammon and a bar after and meeting and realizing that actually so many things at that moment, I'll try to mention all of that. First of all, at that time, there was 101 type of religion or spiritual faction that was on there.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And at that moment, and you know, I could be very thinking, but I listen. You have to understand, remember Kell Grand of Afet things is like my first philosophical Raynon and I ran on it, everything that make poetic sense or whatever I was got my attention after that because when you're capable of reading behind the word and the meaning of it, I start to discover. And this is where I start to like words before that it was pain. But now I start to understand thing. And I really reflect on that and watching sunset. And then I start to just on this island.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I said, well, there's nothing wrong. You said, you're not on the vibe. I said, what do you mean you're not on the vibe? You're fighting the radium. You know, this guy was throwing me like that. It's like sitting down, didn't even invite himself. He invited himself. He says, wait a minute, I'm in my bubble of pain. And it just keeps throwing me those things you're not feeling the vibe of the island. And he said, the sermon said, you know what? I know I'm disturbing you there, but I will tell you one last thing. I said, try to feel the rhythm of the island and the island will bring you on the right side of your soul. Boom. Okay. What is that?”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And wow, I was discovering a part of the world that I didn't see. And I always want to go to Hawaii because my parents told me so many good things about it. And then I was there and it was very interesting. There was an interesting HP community performer there. There was like the EP side. There was, you know, nice nightlife, simple life and mellow things. But I was still in pain. And it's a very interesting moment in my life. So for the two first week, it was fun. get to know people but I had this sadness inside with me and I was heartbroken and I was getting this little cafe or juice otherwise not drinking coffee but like this milkshake type of things you know in the morning at the same cafe and there was always this old EP there I remember he was a magician I learned that after that was always the same thing with me and soon he approached me and he said hey what's wrong with you I said what's wrong with you asking the question what's wrong with me and”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“20 weeks of work, and people were going and getting their paycheck for the rest of the winter. It was not my style. For me, it was about, okay, the job's finished. I was hitting the road all the time. So one time on a motorcycle, we're going to Montreal, Quest, then San Diego, and then jumping there. But in 1979, 1988, and 1979, at the end of the first year, which was my love affair, I discovered Hawaii. Summer was a love of my life. Back then, first big love. And at the end of the year, it was like the broken art of my life. Within six months, seven months was like I went from, wow, this is love and second, oh, heartbreaking is very hard. It's very painful. So I had to take care somewhere. So I was a friend that was in Hawaii on the big island, Kona, that said, I passed by and arrived there.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Theater on sales, music, fire breeding. But that moment I really had mastered, I would send all the skill I had, probably fire with the highest level I was mastering. So I had my pyro license. I was one of the best fire breeder in the world. I was developing device to manipulate fire. I was organizing show fire.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Business function. I was able to give my skill. And we had an amazing 1980 summer. This is the year also of the federal election. I was a candidate at the Rino Service Party. You know, there was this like crazy party that was promising any things. I was a political candidate. We had a lot of fun.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I accept to be one of the artists in this teeter Trouvon Stilts, which was in partnership with this guy, Serena, we end up to be so bad for the business. So at the end of the season, actually, we had an amazing experience. It was a summer of my first big love in my life and an amazing theatrical original experience, but that relationship with the management, especially that guy. So everybody was like, man, we don't like the guy. They end up bankrupt at the end of the season. Gilles said, well, you know, it's like I'm making mistakes. And we all decide to create a nonprofit organization, buy back the assets, and start it under a new company, which was the original, the foundation company that we built Sig Du Soleil with in the future. So step two of that was to manage, and then I was tour manager. I was like assuming a market thing.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, because if I say I quit, that's it. I'm done. So I didn't know if I'm going to work. So I milked that story, got the permission, went there, never went back, but at least I had that back off. It's always, you know, you playing chess in life. It's like, you make a move, but you want to know what's your back move. That was one of them. So eventually.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Government basically had those grants that you could have enough money to pay salary for the summer. In that region of Quebec, it was very simple. 80% of population was working on grant salary during the summer and get the unemployment check during the winter. This is what that region is about. So basically you need 20 weeks to work to get your check the rest of the year. And that's what's the life and most of people was living on that pattern. But I didn't know. So what I said, I said to my employer, said, listen, I didn't have a house. I said, my house just went on fire. Could I have a couple weeks to just go organize the thing? I didn't want to lose my job.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's the end of 79. Then in the falls, I got called for the strike sale and I go back to work on the dam. And Jill, in the meantime, choose another partner. I said, okay, well, you're not doing a collective. You want to do business? Fine. I said, but I won't hire you. I said, well, listen, I'm going in Mexico, came back, went to the dam. A month after, Gilles said, I have the grant of the thing that you want to be an artist in my troop. I said, I don't know.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because you're probably too young to remember that they're still there, but at that time there was this leader and the Brendan puppet Movland was anti-war, right? It came during the Vietnam War and they had that farm in Vermont that they shape and they had a magic wood. And every year they were doing this festival and they were the master of still walking. And Joe came back of that and said, I have an ID. Let's do it, you know, I'm doing music. We're doing a little theater. So let's start a theater troop on stilt.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly, that two cents or the five stands, but I'm telling you, after every day there was a truck, an empty bundle. I made so much money going back and selling everything those bottles that I end up having a very with little contract of music and the bar and the cafe I end up having a pretty decent thing and this is where Gilles Sencois which was coming out of was also a very interesting misfit creature he was just coming back from an experience at Brendan Puppet in Vermont. I don't know if you remember old.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Exactly Parties, organizing things. That's what I was good to. I always been good at doing those things, organizing trips and stuff like to Louisiana at 15 years old, running the Mardi Gras. Many of those mini stories there that we could talk for a long time. But this one was an important one because first the deal was they would tell me, we cannot pay you, but we could offer you a roof and a belt. I said, that's okay with me, but could I have maybe the opportunity of making a little more money? I said, I'll organize your party, but I want to be able to pick up every beer bottle on the site. and earn the money of the beer bottle.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just so they and another guy, Daniel Gautier, that was my school friend, which was, we left our relationship, not a good note. And then I go, said, okay, why do I end up with this guy that I want to see? But he's part of this. It was a nonprofit organization and I arrived at the time where they were shaping the usual. So we prepared the things. I got the job of animating. So I was in charge of the party.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Union Got in stride three days after. God, here we go. My summer is crude. My money is out. Bedtiming. Then I come back. They want me to go picking. I have nothing to do with their things, you know, to be honest. It's a community that I didn't even engage with. And I was like, I don't know. I didn't fell emotionally engaged to good picking because they were giving you a check, small check, but they were giving you a check. So what I decided to do, I said, where did I then go in my province? And there was one place based St. Paul, okay, which is a little village North Quebec, which had the reputation of one of the coolest youthful steel there. And I said, wait a minute, I have a little check. I'll go there. I'll offer my service to help again a bet than food. That was it. And I'll wait. I didn't know when the strike was tough or not, but it ended up to be all summer. So when I arrived there, climbed the hill. And funny enough, I see Gilles Saint-Croix, that is one of the most important persons in my life.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Something like that, or yeah, yeah, yeah, or buy a wholesale bunch of jeans and going things and making five bucks over the jeans. The wages there was like you were sent there, you had the highest wages, extra hours you were working seven hours is like you were doing so much money. So my father got me that job. So I go there then three days after I arrived there my syndicate go on strike.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Actually, when I came back, I was not yet deciding if I was going back to school or not. Again, I find another way to extend my year not going to school to tell my father, while I need to make money now, could you help me to have a job? You had a friend who had a factory to do a window for the RVs and trailers. There for months. Obviously, this was a factory job, but it was bringing a little money while I was playing in bars with music and still willing dealing, anything that could sell on the site.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My job would assure that every show they could be a fraction a second that any spectator in the place would say, wow, they did that for me. You know, whatever it is. And if I was able in my show to make people feel that I did that for them, that was the most wall was falling down at that moment. So again, that's my understanding, the psychology, the world different way, radical acceptance, recognition that nothing's perfect. It was just like, this is all came to my journey and sick was the sandbox in which I was able to build that castle.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“profound and deep in the emotion of joys Well, they will try and they will look into living that again and again and again. And the same effect when somebody suffers something. And this is why sometimes one event of aggressivity could provoke a monster. Why? Because the emotion is there and you want to give revenge. So he's building even more what he had in this. So it's like it goes both ways. And like I said, I'm so happy to make that choice of my life that I could have these tools, this healing tools that I believe is. My job at Cig de Sole did a lot of things, but one of the most important function I has when we create a show.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“to build a better world in two ways first in exposing because all my show was all about inspired by the culture of the world either through the music the costume the team and things like that my artist was a mosaic of all this beautiful people around the world that was performing so for me i believe that i was a promoter of one world and by then open the mind of people that there's other people than you and they could be beautiful too and they don't have to think like you that one the second one is really what i just explained about this wall because i believe strongly that the power of love overcome the power of aid because it's a feeling so when people feel something that extremely”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You'll be surprised because I always said, you know, to hit the big seven, which is having the privilege on this planet to be born on the right side of the planet, having the love of your parents, water, food, not being beat physically before the age of 10 or sexually abused, whoa has a question, I will tell you, it's like there's not many that qualify for the big seven. So this is very important to understand, I believe, in the society we're living. It's a lot of creepy and twisted things that happen to human beings and that human being to each other. So again, I'm so happy to hear your story because two things. My show were about, of course, the spectacular of it, the things like that. This is like this was the big pleasure. But the fundamental satisfaction was coming from two things. Really having the impression that each of my show was helping.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But they don't tell the source of why you are there. And there's many other things that I learned my lesson out. But this is a typical example that you could reverse negative and build it to even be better. So what do you believe in that? Of course, that person, those person was wrong because this is not right. But on the other side, if I didn't live that moment, maybe I would be a different person and not realize very young in my life that wait a minute. No, I would not be and I would not use that type of power over other people. So it's very interesting. We could talk and talk. This is my philosophical part of the brain, but those are typical way that I learn out of everything I engage in.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“fist, but what my creativity from me making people live an emotion because they live a moment of joy. And when you're capable of putting down the walls that the people put in general around them to protect because they got hurt before, and you bring them to a point that they put down those walls and open their heart for you to plant a seed and made me realize that part of my job is not only to be a merchant of happiness, but a soft medicine healer of the soul. I don't know how you could use that. And then it reversed totally. At the moment I start to feel this power that to understand that feed the circle of life and feed you back and it was like very, very powerful. And I was like trying to explain it in a colorful way, but the dynamic is what I just explained to you. So it's very interesting because sometimes people tell a story.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was living, and I kept in my pocket always the address because I said, if I pass by there, I want revenge. And a certain moment I physically took the paper, ripped it off, put it in garbage, and that was it. I was leaving my future and I boom. But again, this is how lucky I am. Do you know how many kids their life will be destroyed for things like that? So again, what that comes from? Is it the love of my parents, this understanding of your dad, this feeling that the way you think is not the way you want to be and overcome that? Do you know how many friends have not survived that? How many people have been, their life have been destroyed by living something like that? So obviously once I overcome that, I become so engaged in those type of value and defending that that I become very, very strong about not allowing those type of things in my surroundings. Combat that, fight that not with my...”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So that dark moment really was present. I was doing things that was not necessarily creative, that was more destroying. I was doing things that is not how I was educated. It's not what I was feeling, but I was doing it by rage. And this is where it's super important to understand that what saved me out of that darkness is music and this desire of traveling and actually activating the action of getting out of my city and getting out of my environment because that was toxic. It was contaminated by what I had to live as children and I was not able to see the beauty and I was just seeing the darkness and going out of this circle, geographical circle, I permit me to slowly ill this thing to a point where certain moments I remember there was a very precise moment where I have the address I knew where this person that tried to rape me.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Try it and I got their trick. I resist. I fought it back. But there's some other kids there that didn't have this courage of reacting and they were my friends and they got beat up in the sense of it killed their soul. And then one suicide itself. So obviously, and I was incapable of saying to my parent at that time, remember, I was 10 years old, 11, and knowing my parents were religious. So obviously, will I be punished or I didn't know. I was confused about the information and I guess there was a taboo things because I see my parents was very religious. I was confused. So I kept that for myself and among my friends. So I build up this desire to destroy to the point at a certain moment even because of another event later. I left two events a little bit like that. And the last one, which is kind of like the add-on of that, I arrived to a point where I want to kill the person. And actually, I was not feeling that.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I could share. I could share. I've been sharing people. It's part of my life. My close friends know and I have no problem talking about that. And that's actually related to a very big problem in the world that we're living. And it's coming out and keep coming out year after year, which is all about this Catholic church controlling schools, abusing children, and being excused because they were the voice of God. So at the age of 10, my parents sent me to A school in a college in Montreal, which I was a boarding school. And obviously soon I realized with my friends that there's a bunch of priests that want to abuse you sexually. So I resist that. I beat that up. But I had a friend who suicide herself. And so I start to be very, very reactive. And it brought me a lot of angryness because, you know, what is the feeling? First, you resist. I've not been raped, but I've been...”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That I was shifting and I consciously made the decisions not to go to school, but give myself the chance to live out an entertainment. Whoa, that was difficult. With my mom, It took the first year of Signus Ale to realize it and she collapsed in, now I understand. My father, it took three more years because it was still some issue related to a reach him a couple times for financial help to help to go through some tough moment and he was coming back with his old moral or condition and it pissed me off. But we had a great conversation in a steakhouse, Moshe's in Montreal, a good bowl of wine and a big deal pickle and coach La Sala. We make peas there. And from that moment, I brought them everywhere in the world with me. We became good friends. We had her up and down, but it was an amazing connection. You know, in the life of our children or any relationship with parents, we're not, you know, obviously it's not instant, but you always wish that the complete connection of the circle of this relationship is done before one of us die. And I did accomplish that when my parents.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“to live and experience in our conversation always made them believe that I will come back to schools, but I was always every year extending the return to school. But when they realize, wait a minute, yeah.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And hitting the road, taking risks in my adventure, I always knew somewhere, and I realized that after, and it's maybe that subconscious or this third eye or sixth sense or whatever, but I realized that, hey, wait a minute, I knew and I know exactly what they were about. They never told me if you cross that door, don't come back, first of all. And you know how many parents screwed up when they said that to their kids. And second, I realized that if I screwed up I would always be able to come back. I would have a bad food and love and comfort. And this had trigger this enormous wave of courageous desire to even engage more. They didn't know that at the moment. They think I was crazy because I was doing more that was doing previously. And then obviously there was this confrontation about starting to do business and entertainment because it was one thing for them to understand that I was using art or music.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Time things could go there because I'm trying to ask you things to be able to achieve things, but it's always a negotiation and you try to bring back a new way of thinking. So I clear that and it worked. Actually, that deal worked pretty good because without Was at least a dialogue that took place, and there was some up and down, but I realized, and this is where the first thing I realized is actually at the end, all this courage that I have.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But this is really what I say. Enough is enough. We have to make a point on our relationship because I'm not happy. I'm at the point I'm questioning if you love me or things like, you know, all the teenager turmoil. You know, this is a very, being a teenager, this is the most fragile time in your life if you've not been aggressive actually before the age of 10s or beat up. But if you have a normal life, this is a very fragile moment. So obviously came back. My mom was crying and stuff like that came back like 10 days after. And then I sat down and said, let's make a deal. We don't agree a lot of things, but I will continue my school. You pay for my lunch, my clothes, but I want to be having the right of keeping my hair long. And second, work to earn my own money to pay myself what I want because I'm tired, dad, of every time I ask you something, you ask me to do something for it. And enough, you know, because some.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Page about the children, as I said, the children are not your children. I was just like, it blew my mind. That text was everything I want to say to my parents. So, I think within a week or two weeks after, I got in conflict with my parents and left home, hit the road because they wanted me to cut the hair and it was another thing. And I took the page and I wrote on the piece of everyone, you will understand that meaning of that text will be able to communicate. That's pretty brutal at 14 years old when you threw a text like that on the face of your father and mother. And actually, it was a very important moment in my relation, the first like, this is where the first time I stand by my thing before I was arguing, I was screaming, I was like.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To my teenager mom, and to try to explain, well, listen, I have a call, I don't like that. And every time I do that, I learn more. I have fun doing that. I do more money than that now than I'm doing. Yeah, it build up. You know, I want to have long hair. No, you have to shorten that. You have to go to a church. It was like all this type of things. So I was very confrontational. And actually they helped me because when they were punished me, they were putting me into my room. And this is where I learned music. This is where I was practicing my music by rage. I was transforming my rage in not being dark. That being said, I was in a dark moment from 11 to 14 for other reason. But when my parents was all of that, then I left home at 14 years old. Enough is enough. One amazing mom in my life, one teacher, moral science, because you could have the option of Catholic, you know, or moral science. Obviously, I was rejecting the religious again in a moral sense.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And all my life, I've seen that family supporting each other in terms of when one of them was cruding up, there was never judgment. And, you know, this is what I grew up on. So my roots is love. Support is community spirit. It's like understanding that nobody's perfect. So I learned a lot out of that. I didn't understand it at the beginning, you know, because obviously when you grow, especially at the teenager moment, then it's starting to be a little confrontation and there's many story I could tell, but I don't think it's relevant. More than saying in their heart, they tried to educate you, the parents, and in terms of what they believe is a good thing for you based on their value. So at my time, my age childhood, being a doctor, being a judge or whatever was the consecration, you know, you're an engineer, you got a good salary, you have security. And I was trying all my life.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“My father was coming from a family of eight, seven sister and him, and the grandmother had the twins. So together, you know, on the father's side family, there was about over 120 people, Uncle Uncle things. And every weekend. One of the houses, and nobody had money. Nobody was the rich one. The richest one was an uncle, the printer company. He was printing a pamphlet and stuff like that. They tell you a little bit how rich we were. But every weekend, somewhere in one of the house, there was always from Friday night to Sunday night 48-hour party where the kids were, I remember we just sleeping on the floor, 10 kids piling on that. They were doing music, played cards, have fun, drinking, getting drunk, singing, arguing.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And whatever in need he was organizing it. So I learned these things. And by the way, and this is pretty special because I not met many people who qualify in that. In all my life and many years after I grew up or still now, I never heard a bad word about my father. It was always Gaston, clean, amazing guy. My father was always smiling. It was always like humor, smiling, not reacting to things where my mom was that little scorpion. It was like she was picking, picking. It was mama controls. And the dynamic was interesting. But I grew up in this type of family. One brother, we were fire and water together, but now we're best friend because we're both parents that pass out last year. And then the grand family”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Little boys, but they were having fun, and actually it was another wheel of the year. He always made his way, got broke so many times because it was a gambler. But, you know, he was the most amazing entertainer. He ended up his career as vice president of an Alcom company, not because he was formerly went to school on that, but because he was the best person in the company, one client, the international client was coming to Montreal. He was organizing all the party. And all the client was going back signing the contract.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“First of all, my parents were amazing characters to start. They were entertaining, not knowing they were entertaining. My body probably a little bit more. My father had this way of triggering reactions, my mom and it was created an amazing, funny, dramatic moment that was trigger their own story to be shared with us, the children and my friends. They were entertaining us all the time. My mom come from a very specific type of family. Both of them were very poor. My mom worked her ass out to be a nurse, hit the road at the age of 18. She had a stud baker at 18, hit the road to California as an adventure with two other nurse, work all it, musician, piano player. My father had come from the other side who is coming from a neighborhood in Quebec, which is like a bunch of kids hustling, playing tricks, having fun and getting away with it by just being what some people would think bad.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And from Paris, then I start met a lot of people, and then you start to engage, okay, do I go to Ireland or I go to that festival? And I kind of like organically the rhythm or the speed of the wind. You know, it's like, oh, I was waking up in the morning. I was like, okay, let's go there. You're hiking again, depending the success of HIT, you could arrive on time or not. So it was this journey of going from one place to the other one with people who were alone and making friends and engaged in jamming, making money learning. This is where I learned all my fire breeding things, a little bit of the performance size of a busker because there's a music side and there's a performing side. So this is where”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“There every day, but there was a traveling people. I rapidly recognized that if you play the game well, if you're socially engaged and respectful of certain rules that exist and you have to learn about them, then you engage in the community that is really supporting of each other. And then you make friends and then you decide what the traveler went to do, I don't know, two weeks with the violent player or a week with the belly dancer or the fire breeder person. So through this experience, it's not only encountering a community that was much bigger in Europe than it was in Quebec. Because, you know, obviously Quebec, we have the climate factor, which is a little difficult to bus at minus 30 in the corner of Street of Montreal. So the timeline is pretty limited. And also the population is much smaller. Paris was my base at the beginning, which is where I speak French, arrived there.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“First of all, where do you busk? Because it's not every corner of the street that you can make, get your bread and breakfast money. So one of them is really to Rapidly identify in a city where's the hotspot for people to busk okay and obviously there's already busker when you arrive so you don't invent the wheel you're just observing but then you have to deal with territorial situations so you have two ways of dealing with that either you provoke and you confront which normally is not the right way to do or you engage you engage in the street neighborhood which is not always busker but it's also a lot of different people of all kinds very colorful very misfit people very disrupting people but also amazing personality because a lot of artists are there musicians so you engage in a community that belong to this the city but what i realize is basically there's two things the busking business in in europe it was the permanent people the people who live in that city that didn't move and they were the one that was”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Almost a year in Europe discovering the pleasure of playing in the street, realizing the impact of making people smile, but mostly I was achieving my dream, and I came back with more money in my pocket than I left with.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Years per minute to travel around Canada and a little bit of the States to encounter other musicians, to play on the street, play in a music festival. So I realized that, hey, listen, I could have fun playing music. I discovered through this journey the beginning of the pleasure of entertaining people, but mostly I was able to always go further and further geographically. And then obviously after a couple years, 18 years old was coming soon. And it was just like, I'm going to Europe. And I had enough money to pay myself open tickets for a year and about 50 bucks in my pocket, but an amazing number of contact that either had met over the previous three years or people that had been in Europe say, hey, you should go in this bar to play. You should meet that person. He's an interesting musician and went out, hit the road, and basically spent.”
2023-10-25 · The Tim Ferriss Show · #700: Guy Laliberté, Founder of Cirque du Soleil — The Power of Belief, Street Gangs, Wild Tales from Las Vegas, The Dangers of Nurturing Fear, and Dancing on the Cliff · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT