Ethan Hawke and his daughter Maya Hawke were recently interviewed by Bishop Barron. Ethan and Maya’s most recent project is “Wildcat,” a film about the great twentieth-century author Flannery O’Connor. The film is directed by Ethan, and Flannery O’Connor is played by Maya. During the interview Ethan talks about people who struggle to find how they are. His answer to this struck me as wise. I listened to the entire interview, over an hour, and had to go back and listen again to this clip:

You know a lot of people go around the world and they go like, "Who am I?" you know, "I don't know who I am" and if you want to know who you are, you can make a case to be made, a very compelling case that God is telling you who you are by what you love, yeah and if you get close to what you love, what you love expands. And in the pursuit of excellence in any talent that you are given, that you are given, that everybody is given, right, in in the expression of Excellence at it you do honor to your maker right? 

Ethan Hawke

In case you want to see the entire interview, I have included it here. The quote from above comes from about minute 5:55 to 6:41