The speaker, who grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia, shares their journey of becoming a filmmaker. They recall their
1. The speaker grew up in Vancouver, British Columbia.
2. The speaker wanted to be a filmmaker as a teenager.
3. The speaker found a film director with a strange name who lived in Vancouver.
4. The speaker saw the film director on the cover of a magazine.
5. The speaker looked up the film director's number in the phone book and white pages.
6. The speaker called the film director in the year 2000.
7. The film director called the speaker back.
8. The speaker was able to chat with the film director about filmmaking.
9. The speaker wanted to get on set to gain experience in the film industry.
10. The speaker felt it was hard to break into the industry from the outside.
11. The speaker mentioned a psychological phenomenon known as learned helplessness.
12. The speaker described experiments conducted on dogs and adults to establish the phenomenon of learned helplessness.
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