#444: Hugh Jackman on Best Decisions, Daily Routines, The 85% Rule, Favorite Exercises, Mind Training, and Much More

I tell other actors to be weary of the word 'career.' It's not a right that you're going to act. 98% of actors are unemployed. It's a privilege when you get a job, and don't expect they'll always be one around the corner. Work your ass off.

If you start a business—it could be a pizzeria, it could be a bar or restaurant, or anything else—you have to give it 7 days a week for 5 years. After 5 years, you may be able to pull back a little bit ... You may be able to hire a manager. You may be able to hire staff to make things a little easier. But no one goes into owning their own business thinking, 'This is going to be the easy life.' They do it because there's something they want to create and they don't want to be told what to do, so they go out and make it happen.

The nature of our minds is to always be working and thinking. The trick to life is not letting the mind be your master; make it be your servant.

Everyone needs to feel appreciated. It doesn't matter what they do; it doesn't matter who they are. That's a need for everybody.

Often, the most important times to listen to intuition—which you could think of as a few million years of pre-verbal evolution giving you a signal... The most important examples of me listening to intuition have been when it's seemingly made no sense—where it wasn't obvious.

Live life as though it's the second time around but you got it wrong the first time.

Everyone takes a shower every day, and we don't complain about it. We do it out of discipline. There will always be an excuse not to meditate.