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October 8th, 2014
09:40 PM ET
Mike Rowe: "Follow your passion" is bad advice
You've seen him doing a lot of jobs people avoid - crawling through mines, swimming with sharks, even castrating sheep - but Mike Rowe joins the CNN family as the host of the new series "Somebody's Gotta Do it."
Erin Burnett spoke to him about the show and his controversial advice on achieving success.
LoadingMike Rowe drops by #OutFront to talk about his new show "Somebody's #GottaDoIt" premiering tonight at 9pm ET on @CNN. Find out where Rowe gets his best ideas for the show at 7pE.
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Part of our conversation: vimeo.com/795428219/6aec….
He says this to Ukrainians: “ I ask the Ukrainian people for forgiveness, that I came to their land with a gun in my hand”.
"Nobody teaches a writer anything. You tell them what you know. You tell them to find their voice and stick with it, because that's all you have in the end. You tell the ones who have it to keep at it.
But you tell the ones who DON'T to keep at it, too. Because that's the only way to get where you're going."
(Grady Tripp, Wonder Boys)