Neil Patrick Harris Suits Up At VeeCon: Following The Fire, Embracing Failure And Getting What You Give

Best known arsenic an actor, Neil Patrick Harris is simply a antheral of galore talents. He talked astir the fire burning wrong of him that drove him to effort caller things passim his vocation Friday astatine VeeCon 2023, a NFT-ticketed business, tech and popular culture super conference.

What Happened: Harris was formed into the acting country astatine a young age, starring successful respective productions. Then helium felt the urge to effort caller things. 

"I'm turned connected by caller accomplishment sets," Harris said. 

The histrion said helium didn't privation to enactment wherever helium felt comfortable and wanted to propulsion his vocation to caller heights, adjacent if that meant failing astatine caller things. 

"Failure is truthful important — we shouldn't effort to fail, but we person to fail," he told the audience. 

Harris added that helium wanted to effort thing wherever helium felt authenticity and creativity lined up. 

The histrion has acted successful movies and respective TV shows, astir famously in the deed bid "How I Met Your Mother." He's besides worked connected Broadway, hosted grant shows and even created his ain committee game, "Box One." 

"We lone person a constricted magnitude of clip truthful you should bash things you are passionate astir and excited by," Harris told the packed VeeCon crowd.

The multifaceted entertainer recalled his clip spent moving connected "How I Met Your Mother," noting that the formed didn't adjacent cognize if the amusement would beryllium canceled for the archetypal 4 years. It wasn't similar it was a blow-away hit close away, helium said, but it did conscionable hap to travel retired astatine the close time. 

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Suit Up! Harris played the quality of Barney Stinson, who was known for ever wearing a suit. The histrion said that dressing for occurrence represents getting back what one gives, oregon a consciousness of karma, which, Harris said, helium believes is real.

For the 100th occurrence of "How I Met Your Mother," the formed did a philharmonic show called "Nothing Suits Me Like A Suit."

That brought unneurotic aggregate things that Harris was passionate about, fixed his philharmonic and Broadway experience, which helium said was "really fun" for him. 

Harris said he's a large believer that things hap for a crushed and that, if one puts positivity retired into the world, it volition travel backmost around. 

"We person the accidental to marque bully oregon atrocious decisions each of the time," the actor said. "If we take to marque those without agenda, past I conscionable judge that it comes back, successful either direction."

Harris added that he feels serial entrepreneur and the antheral down VeeCon, Gary Vaynerchuk, goes astir beingness the aforesaid way. 

Harris told the assemblage that helium met Vaynerchuk done a random message. The histrion said Gary Vee had sent him a nonstop message connected societal media and asked if helium would similar to conscionable up for lunch. When Harris asked why, Vaynerchuk told him that it was simply due to the fact that helium thought Harris was a bully idiosyncratic and that helium thought that they could beryllium bully friends. 

"He's that genuine to everyone and I truly judge that," Harris said. "That's conscionable bully radical doing bully things and past bully things happen."

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