Mr. Bean — A Weird Kid with a Stutter Who Became the Most Famous Actor in the World
Enjoy your own company
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Nowadays success is the measure of how valuable you are as a person. You can be smart and authentic all you like but no characteristic will get you respect like your income and popularity.
But what does it take to be ahead of the game? Grit? Ambition to be the best? Friends in high places? Family ties? Your dad’s wealth? Expensive education? To be outstanding, you don’t need any of these.
Sometimes you need to be an outcast. A boy in the corner of the schoolyard who’ll never be a part of the popular crowd. A child with no special talent, if you ask the teachers. A shy kid with a strange hairdo who lives in the fantasy world like all losers.
When you don’t have real friends, you resort to imaginary ones. Or you’re the hero of your own play. Later in life, that unreal role can make you more popular than Johnnie who’d always win a sprint running race.
But you need a lot of time and loneliness to pay off. It took Rowan Atkinson some 30 years to become a global success.
A young guy no one appreciated
Rowan Atkinson was born on 6 January 1955 into a middle-class family as the youngest of four boys. One…
