I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?
What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.
What I learned most was how to tell a story in 15 seconds or 30 seconds or 60 seconds - to have some kind of goal of what to try to do and make it happen in that time.