One of the greatest directors and visionaries of our time, George Lucas sits down with the Academy Of Achievement breaks down why he believes he became so successful. A rare interview that most people have not seen, but should. Lucas tells the audience how he was an underachiever who hated school but loved to build things and loved working on cars. Eventually he would go with his childhood friend to a testing for an Arts school, he got in and passed the test. Lucas tells us how his father said “there will be no artist in this family, that’s a horrible way to make a living.” He admits that he didn’t even watch a lot of movies as a kid as he was from a small town with only one movie theatre. Lucas is very genuine in this speech about how he felt almost lucky enough to find his path. All in all, Lucas combined his many passions – social sciences, why we do what we do, anthropology, he wanted to build things, he loved to create, art, photography, which all led to making movies. He believes that the fact that he was always following things he enjoyed and felt a purpose towards which ultimately led to him finding his life’s grand passion and work. Because he cared about all those things, he believes that destinies course would have token it’s place and got him to the final destination of making movies -particularly Star Wars. In fact, George Lucas actually explains how each different route would literally have led him to his fate because he was always following his passions. As he states “So I think it’s very important not to do what your peers think you should do, not do what your parent think you should do or teachers, but to do what you inside- or even your culture thinks, but do what’s inside you.”