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Jerry Seinfeld

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“That's the game we're playing. That's life. Life is they're trying to kill you. You get this free ride till you're, let's be generous, 43. And then God goes, you know what? I'm going to move on to the people in their 16 to 23, and I'm going to give them my best. If you want to hang around, you can hang around, but I'm not giving you anything anymore. It's on you now. If you want to stick around, but I got nothing for you. You figure it out.”
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“The travel do you realize what it takes to travel, to go to the airport in your 50s, in your 60s, to fly on planes, to go to strange cities, to go to hotels, to put on a suit, to go out on stage at eight o'clock at night and run around and yell, you know, and project your physical energy for an hour in front of thousands of people, they're trying to kill you I have made it into a game. Like it's like Mitsi. I'm going to step on you. And I went, no, no, I'm going to step on you.”
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“Now, I mean, there's a fantastic book about stand-up that I read during the virus called Seriously Funny. And the guy writes only about comedians of the 50s and 60s. And the introduction of that book, which is like 20 pages long, and he goes through Woody and Lenny and Joan Rivers and all these great people and how it broke one after the other, one after the other was broken by it. They either were worn out or their brains cracked or their psychology cracked or it just took them apart. It's a very, very difficult profession to sustain in. So just to survive to me is the game. That's my concept of success. Did you beat them at their game? They're just, they design this thing to kill you”
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“Ronhoward made the movie when they're dropping like flies and the handful, the small handful, somebody asked me the other day, how many people whose careers were made on the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson are still working? I didn't even want to answer the question. So longevity is what I, because you had it, you know what I mean? You had it. You had... You had it. So once you have it, you can only lose it You can only fail to take care of it. And that's when we get to health and work ethic and managing yourself so that you don't break. They're trying to break you. I always tease my friend Jimmy Fallon that this is like a sick experiment, these talk show gigs. Let's take a human being, put him in a studio for decades. Doing an hour of television a day, and let's see what breaks. It's sick. It's a sick human experiment.”
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“You know, I think, I don't know if I mean it as a joke, but I say a lot these days, survival is the new success. And I'm a big look, Tim, what do you want me to tell you? In my business. Sixty plus, or I'll even if you're 55 and you're getting paid to work, paid well, you have crushed it. So stand up comedy, you know, this, I would move this piece of our conversation next to the toxic ecosystem of this world. When you have seen the attrition that I have seen, It's like in the heart of the sea, you know, that book?”
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“It's a good thing. It's a good thing. So this goes to my nurturing side of the equation. If you're getting on stage and standing in front of a group of strangers and trying to make them laugh, God bless you. I don't give a shit what you do. I don't care if it's old stuff, new stuff. I don't care if you're dirty, if you're clean, if you're going to stand up there by yourself and try and make me laugh. I love you. And I'm not going to criticize anything you do beyond that. I'm not going to criticize it. And you shouldn't criticize yourself either. So in other words, there's no, to go back to, do I gamify it? No, it's always a win. If I got up there and tried to do it, I win. Even if I didn't reach what I'm trying to reach, even if I, to me, it's a four out of ten show, I still pat myself on the back for it.”
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“Do you ever worry that they're going to see the same show you did last time, or how do you know what you did? And how do you know when it's time to take a piece of material out of your act that you've been doing it too long? And it needs to be retired and you should do something else. And, you know, kind of reasonable questions from a regular person. And I said, so these pieces I was doing tonight, I said, do you think that you could think of things similar to this? And the guy says, oh, God, no, not in a million years. And I went, yeah, that's what I was thinking. So, what's that? The point of that story is if I'm going on stage and I'm doing these bits, however long it took me to figure this stupid bit out, you know, and however many years I've been doing, which I don't even know, just be glad I'm doing that, you know?”
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“Yeah, but I don't believe I don't score myself creatively. I don't believe in that. This kind of gets into my thoughts on material. I don't know if this will illuminate this for you, but one time. I love to go on stage at Gotham and hearing about the vaccine today got me very excited that maybe I'll be going back there soon on 23rd Street in the city and that's why I like to play with me. It's too difficult, but in a room of a couple people, you can take questions. So one night this guy says to me, he says, when you go back to the same city.”
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“Some people get it. That's not really a game. That's more base that I think stats are good. You want to improve anything, my trainer, Adam Wright, and I always like to play this game. Well, this was the maximum amount of weight you did three months ago for this many seconds or whatever. And then it's like, so it's a game now. Let's see if I can keep the reps going for 30 seconds. Last time was 25. So it's a little game. It's just, again, this goes back to my human brain is a schnauzer. It's just a stupid little contraption that you can easily trick. As soon as you tell me I did a 25 seconds last time, okay, let's say if I can do 30. That's not wisdom. That's not intelligence. It's a stupid little machine. It's going to do that every single time. Every time you tell someone your last best was 25 seconds, you're going to try for 30.”
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“I find it funny and I find it very, it really makes the game fun because I know this should not be happening. I am getting away with murder. I love it. It really makes it. That's another thing, I believe, we've talked about systemizing. Gamifying is another thing I'm very big on. Let's make this into a game, you know, whatever the problem is, let's make it a game. To me, it's a fun game. I honestly, you know, I wouldn't say this around my family, but I don't care if I drop dead tomorrow. It's like, I just wanted to, I still feel like I played the game well. That's all I want to feel. I just want to feel like I played the game well.”
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“Yeah, because you're deteriorating. You're just trying to bend that curve a little bit. You know, I'm 66. I shouldn't be performing at this level at 66. I should be over. So you have to cheat the biology.”
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“I have to say, the Constitution is kind of rare. But I also have to say I don't know anyone who made it over a long period of time that didn't have it. And that's another thing that kind of led me to the weight training aspect. I think it builds your constitution.”
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“It's just the attrition is brutal. You never have to say, I don't get why people like this comedian. Don't worry. Don't worry. You don't have to comment on it. The environment itself will correct. It is a self-correcting ecosystem of pure toxic water”
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“You know what I mean? You're out in the world. You're completely on your own. It's designed to break human beings stand up comed It's a perfect way to break a person's psychologically.”
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“I was not built like that. I wanted to be a stand up comic is because I wanted to say to myself and to the world, I don't need you. I can do this myself. And the comedy store was filled with people that needed her. The comedy world in those days was a druggy. You know, it's a very dysfunctional world, the comedy world, because you're taking these people that can't fit in. They have this one skill. And then you put them in a situation where they can get anything they want. So whatever dysfunctional chemical sexual you're lazy, you're broken, you're messed up, you know, you have no structure around you to fix it.”
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“Because I would never be the broken, the type of broken winged bird that she wanted to have in her little chicken coop of dysfunction that was the comedy story in those days.”
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“I did. When I got my TV series in the 90s, I moved up to this fantastic house in the Hollywood Hills that overlooked all of LA. Every day I would drive down the hill to go to the studio to work on the show. I would see Mitzi taking her walk on a nearby street that we happen to have in common. And I would always give her a nice look I wouldn't wave or honk, but our eyes met.”
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“And I'm very grateful that I know that. You know, if you're an adrenaline junkie, which I am, there's no good comedian that isn't, that's a big treat in life to know how that feels. That I'm going to change my whole life in the next three minutes.”
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“And I told that story in the book too. What that felt like. You know, my favorite sporting thing, I mean, I'm a baseball maniac, but the hundred meters in the Olympics is a thing I love. I love the 100 meters. And that's what happens when you did the tonight show in those days. When I see Lindsay Vaughan at the top of a mountain or I see those guys kicking their legs when they're in the blocks, you know, I know what that feels like. I know.”
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“The tonight show saw me. And every comedian in the world wanted to get on the tonight's show in the 70s and 80s. It was the only way out of the clubs. To real gigs was to be on the Tonight Show. The clubs was you working for free. You know, that's not really the object. The object is to get paid. The object is to be a professional. When you're on the tonight show, you're going from the service road to lane”
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“And I was like, okay, I was angry. I was angry. I was frustrated. I was resentful, but I used that. It was just fuel for me. She wasn't stopping me. Nobody was going to stop me. But when someone is that hostile to you, that can be a very good thing You're tough. If you're tough enough to eat that. And say she's not stopping me.”
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“Lithuania. And so from there, I went from, I hope it doesn't sound immodest, from being absolutely at the top of the heap in New York City to playing at discos in the basement in LA, you know, to like eight people. But my resentment and hostility to her. I was a guy who I would say I was a three-day a week guy in terms of my writing discipline in those days. And I went from three days a week to seven right there.”
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“And I sat there in her office and I nodded. I nodded and I said, Well, I won't mention the name of the guy. She said she was going to give the four spots to. I said, well, if maybe he can't do all four, I'd be happy to take any of the ones he can't do. And I walked out of there and I never worked at the comedy store again. And saying you're not working at the comedy store in LA, it's like saying I want to be a baseball player, but not the majors. Not the majors in the United States.”
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“The room just shake with laughter. It was very intimidating to go on there. And I went on there and I did very well. You know, in those days you would call and they would give you spots if you were good. And I would never get spots. I would get like one spot a week. And, you know, one spot a week. It's like one push up a week. It's like... Well, don't even bother. And so I asked to meet with Mitsi Shore, who's the owner of the club and person who ran the whole thing there. And she said to me, she said, I'm the kind of person that needs to get stepped on. And that's what you need. You need someone to step on you, and I'm going to be that person. And she said, if you called and said, if I had four spots available and you called in, I would give all four spots to this other guy. She mentions this other guy.”
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“Yeah, yeah. I have a couple really good ones. And this is another thing I try and teach the kids, you know, in something horrible happens. And I think of all the things. If you could take your experiences and ask to trade them in, the last ones I would trade would be the failures. Those are the most valuable ones. When I moved to LA, I was only doing comedy four years, but I had built up a pretty good reputation in New York. And New York was really in those days still very much the minors to LA, which was the majors. And so I went out to LA and people talked that I was coming and that I was, you know, one of the hot guys coming out of New York and I was only doing it four years. You know, 25 years old. I mean, I really still just starting. And the comedy store was the club in LA that you had to break into, that was the club and the guys that worked there and the women were killers. I mean, these people made...”
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“I would agree with a chemical intervention into stabilize your mood. I would be nervous about that also. And besides which, as you know, as we all know, there are many other better remedies that, you know, basically a pair of running shoes is probably better than any of the drugs they have on the market, depending on the severity, of course.”
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“Yes. No, I still get him. The best thing I ever heard about it was that it's part of a kit that comes with a creative aspect to the brain. That a tendency to depression seems to always accompany that. And I read that like 20 years ago, and that really made me happy. So I realized, well, I wouldn't have all this other good stuff that that just comes in the kit, that you have a tendency to depression. But I think it's fair to say that I don't know a human that doesn't have the tendency. I'm sure it varies.”
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“Pain is knowledge rushing in to fill a void. You don't know that that post of your bed was not where you thought it was, but when your foot hits it, that knowledge is going to come rushing in really fast. To really hurt when your foot hits that post because that was a piece of knowledge that you didn't have that you're going to get. You're about to get.”
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“Services But yeah, it is similar. You want to be very encouraging, but you also want to explain there are laws in life that you need to know about or it's going to hurt. I think one of the better lines I've come up with over my life is that pain is knowledge rushing in to fill a void with great speed.”
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“People tell you to write like you can do it. Like you're supposed to be able to do it. Nobody can do it. It's impossible. The greatest people in the world can't do it. So if you're going to do it, you should first be told what you are attempting to do is incredibly difficult. One of the most difficult things there is way harder than weight training. Way harder, what you're summoning, trying to summon within your brain and your spirit to create something onto a blank page. That's another part of my systemization technique. Learn how to encourage yourself. That's why you don't tell someone what you wrote. Be proud of yourself. Treat yourself well for having done that horrible, horribly impossible thing.”
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“Yeah, so put it in the harness. Keep, I mean, I don't know. A lot of my life is I don't like getting depressed. I get depressed a lot. I hate the feeling. And these routines, these very difficult routines, whether it's exercise or writing, and both of them are things where it's like it's brutal. That's another thing I was explaining to my daughter. She's frustrated that writing is so difficult because no one told her that it's the most difficult thing in the world. It's the most difficult thing in the world is to write.”
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“So it's three times a week of weights and three times a week the interval cardio training. There are a lot of days, so I want to cry instead of do it because it really physically hurts. But I just think it's balancing. It's very balancing to the forces inside humanity that I think are just, they overwhelm us. We are overwhelmed by our own power. And you got to put that ox in the plow. make it do this stuff that it doesn't want to do. It just keeps it. What the hell do oxes do in the wild? I can't imagine they were happy.”
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“Yeah, yeah. And if I sit down and the pen doesn't move for like 20 minutes, I know I'm out of guess. Why is the pen moving? My weight training routine is three times a week for an hour, a session, but I'm into that. I mentioned the Bill Phillips body for life. The HIT training.”
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“Mm-hmm. Yeah, exercise, weight training, and transcendental meditation. I think I could solve just about anyone's life. And I don't care what you do with weight training and transcendental meditation. I think your body needs that stress, that stressor, and I think it builds the resilience of the nervous system. And I think transcendental meditation is the... Absolutely ultimate work tool. I think the stress reduction is great, but it's more the energy recovery and the concentration fatigue solution, which is, of course, as a stand-up comic, I can tell you my entire life is concentration fatigue, whether it's writing or performing. My brain and my body, which is the same thing, are constantly hitting the wall. And if you have that in your hip pocket, you're Columbus with a compass.”
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“It's not a long time, and it takes years and years and years of work and study and practice to be able to do that, to do the hour. The hour is really the standard in my business. A lot of people can do 20. Some can do 35. A lot of really good guys at 45. An hour and hour 15, I think, again, I'll go to my favorite, which is baseball for analogies. It's the complete game. Can you finish the game? And that's the hour, 10, hour, 20. Nine innings of mastery.”
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“Absurd struggle, and I really think being a conductor or a surfer is the best analogy because the forces that you're attempting to corral are so much greater than you. The wave has so much more strength than you have. All you can hope to do is navigate within it. That's the goal, to just get to that very brief, very transitory perception of mastery. It seems in this moment that I am completely mastering this audience, but it's only a moment. It's only a moment. I couldn't stay up there very long. Even an hour is not a long time.”
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“I sometimes will describe it as math and music, which is kind of the same thing. Music is so mathematical. As his stand up is extremely mathematical. So, you know, I mean, I certainly don't have to tell you of what, that you're just looking for a state of mind. You're trying to maneuver yourself into a state of mind that you know is your highest function level. But there are many levels below that that are good enough to get the job done so that you can call yourself a professional. So that's all there is, you know, is it's musical, it's very rhythmic and musical. It is for me. I'm looking for to get myself in a rhythm and then to get the audience in a rhythm very much like a conductor, I think, would feel. You know, a conductor has a piece of music. I have a piece of music in front of me. And now I have to get the symphony to be doing it the way we know it can be. And then the audience comes along and supports that. And it's this.”
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“I didn't even know if you could make a living as a stand up comedian unless, you know, you were George Carlin. So I didn't know anything about it. I didn't, and the truth was there really wasn't a world, an infrastructure that Ladig exists today. We didn't know if there was any jobs out there, even if we were able to learn how to do it. We had no idea what we were doing. It was completely blind leap of faith out of the plane with the parachute, hoping there wasn't laundry in there.”
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“I reward myself constantly, I mean, but there's no greater reward than that state of mind that you're in. When that set is working. If you can extricate yourself from your Which is the goal in all sports and performance arts. If you get out of your mind and are able to just function, you know, your sense technique that you have, there is no greater reward. But, you know, if you want to have an ice cream Sundae, go ahead. It's going to pale in comparison.”
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“That's the paradise of stand up comedy. You don't have to ask anyone anything. Stand-up comics receive a score on what they're doing more often and more critically than any other. Having his pitches judged by the umpire. And by the way, some of those calls are opinions of the umpire that may or may not be true. Every opinion the audience gives you is 100% accurate.”
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“And just be a harsh prick, ball busting son of a bitch about that is just not good enough. That's got to come out or it's got to be redone or thrown away. So flipping back and forth between those two brain quadrants is the key to writing. When you're writing, you want to treat your brain like a toddler. It's just all nurturing and loving and supportiveness. And then when you look at it the next day, you want to be just a hard ass. And you switch back and forth.”
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“Until it's born, because they're going to react. And the reaction is going to have a color. And if you've decided that that's going to be the baby's name, you don't want to know what anybody else thinks. So I will always wait 24 hours before I say anything to anyone about what I wrote. So you want to preserve that good feeling. Because if you, if let's say you write something and you love it. And then later on that day, you're talking to someone and you thought, hey, what do you think of this idea, blah, blah, blah? And they don't love it. Now that day feels like, oh, I guess, you know, that that wasted effort. You always want to reward yourself. The key to writing, to being a good writer, is to treat yourself like a baby, very extremely nurturing and loving, and then switch over to Lou Gossett, an officer and a gentleman.”
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“Well, I'll tell you, here's a little fine point of writing technique that I'll pass along to your writers out there. Never talk to anyone about what you wrote that day, that day. You have to wait 24 hours to ever say anything to anyone about what you did. Because you never want to take away that wonderful, happy feeling that you did that very difficult thing that you tried to do that you accomplished it. You wrote, you sat down and wrote. So if you say anything, it's like the same reason I don't ever heard the thing like you never tell people the name you're going to give the baby.”
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“The mind is infinite in wisdom. The brain is a stupid little dog that is easily trained. Not confuse the mind with the brain. Brain is so easy to master, you just have to confine it, you confine it.”
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“And it's really, really, so it's such a system for a primitive brain. I do it to this day. I think it's a work of genius, this book. And it really got me in shape because he broke it down to here's what we're going to do in minute one. Here's what you're going to do to minute five, minute 12. And this is going to end in the 45 minutes or whatever it is. And every minute I know exactly what I'm doing. And that turned the key for me. And all of a sudden, I was getting in shape. I never had to ask, what am I doing now? Or what are we doing next? It was very, it's like, you got to treat your brain like a dog you just got. You've got to.”
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“Well, I would teach them to learn to accept your mediocrity. You know, no one's really that great. You know who's great? The people that just put tremendous amount of hours into it. It's a game of tonnage. You know, how many dollars are you going to work? Per week per month per year. You might even want to chart that or with your exercise. If you want to get in shape. I couldn't get in shape. I was like a start as a jogger, you know, like in the 70s and I would run three miles a day. And then I got older and I got married late and I had young kids. And I really had to get in shape. And I picked up this book by Bill Phillips called Body for Life.”
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“No, no, no, not easy. It's sim Have you chosen? I told her, just do an hour. That's a lot. She says, I'm going to write all day. No, you're not. Nobody writes all day.”
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“They don't come up with good, simple little systems. They just try and do it. And that's to me, that's you're going to fail.”
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“Let's do 10. Let's come up with something you can do. That's where you start everything. That's how you start to build a system. So my daughter, so I said to her, you have to have an end time to your writing session. If you're going to sit down at a desk with a problem and do nothing else, you got to get a reward for that. And the reward is the alarm goes off and you're done. You get up and walk away and go have some cookies and milk. You're done. If you have the guts and the balls to sit down and write, you need a reward at the other end of that session, which is stop now. Pencils down. So that's the beginning of a system that, to me, will help almost anybody learn to write, which is something I kind of wanted to teach in a way because I find it, I think it's so simple. I think exercise is pretty simple too. But people”
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“It's over right there. You've got to control what your brain can take Okay, so if you're going to exercise, God bless you, and that's the best thing in the world you can do, but you got to know when's it going to end. When's the workout over? It's going to be an hour. Okay. Or you can't take that. Let's do 30 minutes. Okay, great. Now we're getting somewhere. I can do 30. I'm trying to teach my son who knows how to do transcendental meditation, how to do it. I assume you know about that. I do.”
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