When you’re the son or daughter of a famous pair of movie stars, you weren’t just put on Earth to live in their long shadow. You have a responsibility to put your wisdom into the world’s head. It doesn’t matter if you aren’t even an adult yet or haven’t experienced half of what life’s experiences have to offer. You’re famous and people will listen to you no matter what you say.
So while reading a recent and bizarre interview with Jaden and Willow Smith, the son and daughter of Will and Jada Pinkett Smith, in the New York Times, we started getting them confused with the Dalai Lama — except one of them knows what they are talking about and at least has the body hair by now to prove it. See if you can tell the difference between the craziest quotes we pulled from their interview and the wisest man on Earth. See answers at bottom
1. “There’s a theoretical physicist inside all of our minds, and you can talk and talk, but it’s living.”
2. ” School is not authentic because it ends. It’s not true, it’s not real.”
3. “In the practice of tolerance, one’s enemy is the best teacher.”
4. “Home is where you feel at home and are treated well.”
5. “The only way to change something is to shock it. If you want your muscles to grow, you have to shock them. If you want society to change, you have to shock them.”
6. “When you’re thinking about something happy, you’re thinking about something sad. When you think about an apple, you also think about the opposite of an apple.”
7. “Death means change our clothes. Clothes become old, then time to come change. So this body become old, and then time come, take young body.”
8. “Time for me, I can make it go slow or fast, however I please, and that’s how I know it doesn’t exist.”
9. “There’re no novels that I like to read so I write my own novels, and then I read them again, and it’s the best thing.”
10. “I have a goal to be just the most craziest person of all time.”
11. “In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.”
12. “Caring less what everybody else thinks, but also caring less and less about what your own mind thinks, because what your own mind thinks, sometimes, is the thing that makes you sad.”
13. “We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.”
14. “I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.”
15. “Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.”
16. “Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.”
17. “My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.”
18. “I am just one human being.”
19. “Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way – everything is interdependent, not absolute.”
20. “I like to go to places with my high-fashion things where there are a lot of cameras. So I can just go there and be like, ‘Yep, yep, I’m looking so sick.'”
Answers:
Jaden Smith: 1, 2, 5, 6, 10
Willow Smith: 8, 9, 12, 15, 20
Dalai Lama: 3, 4, 7, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19
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