Legendary late night talk show host and comedian John William “Johnny” Carson received six Emmy Awards, the Governor’s Award and a  prestigious Peabody Award. He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame, awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and received a Kennedy Center Honor. Johnny Carson continued to be an entertainment icon well into his retirement.

Carnac the Magnificent was a recurring comedic role played by Johnny Carson and it became one of his most well-known characters. The “mystic from the East” would “divine” unknown answers to questions posed by announcer and sidekick Ed McMahon. Somewhere in one of Carnac the Magnificent’s unopened envelopes is the answer to true reinvention happiness in Johnny’s own words:

“Never continue in a job you don’t enjoy. If you’re happy in what you’re doing, you’ll like yourself, you’ll have inner peace. And if you have that…you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.”