On Friday Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy will be interviewing Ron Gilbert, creator of The Secret of Monkey Island and Deathspank, so I’ve been doing a bit of research on Ron, in the course of which I came across this keynote address he delivered last year at the Penny Arcade Expo. It’s hilarious and moving and definitely worth checking out. Here’s a sample:
So at the end of the day I would watch all the skiers come into the lodge. Some of them were covered in snow, others were clean and barely a speck stuck to them. I used to think it was the good skiers that were clean and the bad skiers that were caked in snow from falling down all the time. But what I came to realize was the exact opposite was true. It was actually the good skiers that were covered in snow from head to toe because they were pushing themselves, pushing themselves to the breaking point and then beyond it. These were the skiers that were skiing off the back side of the mountain, the skiers taking the jumps and wiping out nine out of every ten times. These were the skiers that were not afraid to fail.
ETA: Listen to my December 2010 interview with Ron Gilbert.
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