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Jimmy Carr

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“I think it's very nicely framed as well. I like the way you asked it, and I like the silence around it because it's often that thing of like conversation is the pace is a bit too quick. We're filling silences. And actually it's something you can kind of sit with. Am I happy? Know and listeners it's almost impossible that you won't have answered that question And if you're not, know that that's okay Because it's going to change. And, you know, happiness I think is about like that. It's the base state, isn't it? It's that thing of, you know, what's your base state? What's going on with you? Are you a happy person generally? Are you able to deal with the stimulus of life and still maintain? I suppose I need to put a question”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, when you're on a plane and it's going down and the oxygen masks come, you have to grab your mask first or you're no good for anyone else. You being happy makes the people around you happier better for your friends, better for your family, better for the world. Great question.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Really good, it's beautiful. Beautiful. And I think, you know, that thing I said earlier about be lucky. I had a friend's father when I was a kid would always say be lucky. And I remember thinking it was ridiculous because you can't be lucky. That you know from the German lucky. Be happ I think it's a powerful thing to aspire to, you know, enjoying the passage of time is my answer for the meaning of life, but to be happy is everything. And I think you are responsible for your happiness. Objectivism and Ayrand get given a hard time, I think, because I think people have conflated pleasure and happiness. And they think those guys are just hedonistic fools. But you being happy is better for the world.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You're way too kind. Thank you. It's been a pleasure. Now I have to write a question for the next year. Yes, you have to write.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But that bedrock of acceptance is a great first step. You are where you are. It's not where you end up. I get the feeling a lot of people listening to this podcast are looking for something, they're looking for kind of a steer. And it's, you know, there's going to be movement. You're going in the right direction. Just the desire to get there is enough to get you started.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I love that thing, though, of going, like, if you're listening to this in the car and you just threw a beer can out the window and you go, yeah, that's who you are. And that's not terrible. You just have to be okay with that. It's a good, I think honesty is one of the great superpowers of comedians because everything's built on that level of life. People aren't going to get the joke if it's not honest.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's interesting that thing of the experience you had as well about the inner critic. Where you engaged with the book. To a degree where you went, is that true? Is that a interesting thing to be able to give someone I haven't met? Something that is essentially very tough love.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you go actually sugaring the pill and going, look, there's this great, interesting world out there. And I think this is like a, I think this book is a gateway drug. I think this is marijuana. This is like some really mellow weed and it'll lead you in a different direction. Like maybe, okay, well, I need to read some more stuff by him or I need to investigate that, or that sounds interesting.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I kind of felt like it was low hanging fruit, the self help thing, because you go, well, Eckhart Tole is amazing. He does not know his way around a dick joke And Jordan Peterson, great, 21 rules for life. But it's like it's quite pitchy.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'll do it in five words Enjoying the passage of time. That's it. It's enjoying the passage of time. The chances of us being here now are so small. The chances of us existing, it's almost, you know, if you look at the stats, it's not just our parents had to get together at that moment, but their parent, their parents, their parents, their going back a billion years as we climbed out of the soup. The chances of this happening are... Incalculable, and yet we're here and we have this shot and we're breathing and we're healthy and we're this is incredible. Enjoying the passage of time is about all I got and it's enough.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“With worse jokes, he goes, So, you want to get better as a performer and you want to get better as a writer? And it feels like this, I feel like I'm at base camp. I've got the kit. I've got the right gear and I'm on the mountain, but we haven't got anywhere near the summit. And that's, for me, tremendously exciting as a guy in his late forties to go, oh, we're just starting. Most of the great comics that I love did their best work in their fifties.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's like the trying new stuff, doing new things, trying to get people to a different state. So it's a little bit for the adulation of it because you kind of go, well, I want it to be a better experience for the audience, but also I want more applause breaks. I want it to be a higher volume laugh. You know, there's a, it's difficult to describe, but there's like, there's a laugh that you go, everyone in the room laughed, bang, but then it's gone. And then get them again, bang, and then it's gone. You want a rolling laughter. I want to get better. I want to get better. I've seen people that are better than me on stage with worse material.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Going like I'm a public figure, I've been on TV for 20 years, pretty famous. I've never spoken like this before, right? So we've just done a couple of podcasts recently where I'm chatting to people as I am. And you go, okay, so there's a serious side to me and then there's a funny side to me. People are nuanced and complicated and great. And I'm trying to bring a little bit of who I am to the stage now. I'm trying to reveal a little bit more about me. And that's a very exciting prospect. And so writing a new show. So I'm sort of halfway through a tour and I kind of push the fuck it button and recorded a special that's going to come out at Christmas. And I've written new stuff. I just go out and do new stuff.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I'm trying to get better at comedy. I've been sort of going about 20 years and I'm trying to change up my style a little bit. So I do this is inside baseball. You can switch off now if you're not interested in comedy. So I do one-liners. Everything's a fastball, right? And I do sort of three a minute on stage and I try and get people into a state where they can't breathe, where they're laughing so much, where they're joyful experience where they can't remember anything I said, but they remember how I made them feel and I made them feel so happy. That's what I want to do. Okay, I'm trying to change that a little bit. I'm trying to change it up so I'm doing, I'm trying to write routines between sort of seven and 12 minutes long, trying to write longer pieces with a bit more to them. So I'm trying to sort of find a, it's been really interesting with the book and with coming on podcasts like this of like finding a different voice”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, listen, this is a very self-helpy chat, right? So we are legally obliged to say at some point it's the journey, not the destination. We have to say that. But getting there isn't half the fun. It's all the fun”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I think it's the idea of going look, you can change the way that you think about things. So I was thinking about things in, I can do this narrow bandwidth of things. My belief system, the assumptions I'd made about life were, well, you can get a job and you can work for someone. And after you get a job and you work for 40 years, you get a pension. And when you get the pension, Was on a conveyor belt. When suddenly I went I could believe anything. I could believe that I could do anything. I could believe that I could be the guy on the TV show telling jokes And you can what you believe dictates your life. You'll be the barrier. You'll be the thing that stops you. No one else. People spend a lot of time worrying about other people. Oh, what if they don't help me? What if they don't? You're going to be the thing that holds you back.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So you imagine the world, right? You imagine and the size of London what it is. What you have in your head isn't the real thing. It's your perception of it. It's your perception of how things are in this room is not the same as my perception. Of how they are in this room So it's different for everyone. And the analogy being there's a map that's 2D and it tells you, right, that's Britain, that's France. You have an idea of what Britain looks like from above. Got fuck all to do with reality. No one's ever seen it from that angle. So those lines don't exist. Those lines are man made. The borders aren't real.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“How you see things within the map inside your mind is how the world is for you. And, you know, so these premises of like the quality of your communication is the quality of your life. Which made sense to me. Everything about it, I read this kind of, I was taught by this guy called Ian McDermott. And everything he said, like for 20 days on this course, I just went, I agree with all of this. Everything felt right to me about that. It felt like, okay, someone's given this a lot of thought and we're all standing on the shoulders of giants. And this seems like a pretty good way to think about life. So, the idea that the map is not the territory, the idea that you go, well, you imagine how things are, you could imagine it a different way. It's very difficult to change how you think about the world. Very difficult.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Neurolinguistic programming is like, I suppose it came out of the West Coast human potential movement of the 70s. It's a sort of almost like a belief structure for life. And it's been used, I think it's been used nefariously a fair bit. You can find some negative stuff on it online. I happen to when I was working for Shell, there was a budget for training. And obviously I'm not working on an oil rig. I was like, okay, well, I'll just go on an LRP course. It was like this kind of slightly hippie-ish thing for a big oil corporation to send you on. And the idea of it is the map is not the territory. It's like the fundamental questions in life are going, look, your experience of the world is not the same as everyone else's.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Think that school of therapy, the Freudian analysis that's all about why that happened, what are we going to do about it? I like CBT and NLP more because it's more like, yeah, what are we going to do though? What are we doing now? What are we doing today? Neurolinguistic programming?”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it was, you know, I think it was fear. There's a lot of other things going on. Obviously, it's like maybe a religious faith, 15% of that and maybe a little bit enmeshed is the term they use where too close to one parent and that maybe stops you from forming bonds with other women. So very close to my mother and that stops you from kind of going out and having normal relationships in some sense. You know, there's a million different reasons. It kind of doesn't matter. It's like everyone gets there. And the perception, I think, again in our society, and the reason to put it in the book is because you go, I'm not embarrassed, give a fuck. Like, I'd very happily talk about it and you go, don't get too caught up in the reasons think about now. Think about what matters.”
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“Yeah, very late. And again, I spoke about that in the book because I think there is a perception in society that it is a race and you need to do that early and you need to be, you know, fucking with a weapons grade dick because... Everyone's watching Pornhub, and you know, whatever. I thought it was a nice thing to share because I think some kid of 24 is going to read that and go, I might be all right. Might be norm”
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“But at the moment, I don't feel kind of drawn towards that world. But I'm kind of aware that that exists. I've kind of got some friends in that world. I'm aware there's other, I've got a friend that was on antidepressants for 30 years and started doing ayahuasca and is now off them. Now, it's not even firsthand. It's definitely not scientifically relevant. Don't take medical advice from me kids. But it strikes me that there are other ways. There's other ways and that there's ancient cultures that had this shit locked down.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it's a great question. I think depression is a part of life. I think it's probably people have always had that. And I think there is Benefit to these things. There's a It's not only negative, you know, melancholy can be a very beautiful thing. Sometimes it's very appropriate to be down, you know, if you're grieving someone. It's talk about being depressed when someone dies. It's grief. It's a different sort of thing that's, of course, it's normal. I think that thing about, for me, I think... The nurture thing is the thing that we can change. I'm a great believer that we could change and do better. But yeah, maybe it is a symptom of how we're living our lives and we could do better. I'm sure if I was doing Ayahuasca every weekend I'd have less panic attacks.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So, I don't know if you've had anyone die in your life, but sometimes someone on their deathbed, you make them their favorite meal. You get the food from the specialty. I remember going to see a friend who was dying and we bought him scotch eggs from Fortnam and Mason, his favorite thing. And he looked at him and he was grateful, but he couldn't eat them because he just didn't have an appetite. And when you're depressed, it's the appetite for life is just gone. You haven't got it. But this too shall pass. You know, that thing of going, well, you can just I can white knuckle it and just kind of get through that, and other people can medicate for a couple of weeks and they're sort of okay.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The first one was probably early 20s, like after college. A black mood that just wouldn't shift. And it was, yeah. Yeah, it's pretty scary. And then I had one in Australia a couple of years ago, 2018, where, and I could kind of see what it was. Like there's a bit of your mind that's like always aware. And it was like I traveled. I'd done like 160 flights that year when it was, I did Australia twice in a month. And I was so broken. I was so stripped of serotonin. And I took a valium to sleep on the plane. And that strips more serotonin. And I was just like, it's the inability to feel joy.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I'm aware of it and I think talking about it does help because all we have is talking therapy. So if that talking therapy is someone listening to my book and going, oh, he seems all right and he deals with this and he's going through it and I know that I'm not alone in this. Because the first time you have a panic attack, it's fucking terrifying because you think, is this my forever now? Because it's all you can feel and it's overwhelming. And you go, Well, is this it? Is it the first time you get depressed? First time like a real depression hits you. It's like, oh wow, this is awful.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I wanted to kind of deliver on listen, if I hadn't talked about the tax thing in the book, I think readers would have felt shortchanged, very much like HMRC did. But again, the depression and anxiety, I suffer more with anxiety than depression, and I try and see it in a very positive way. I try and be as positive as I can in life. I go, so if I have an anxiety attack, you go, well, that's sort of the flip side of creativity, right? So if you have a mind that's whirring all the time, you know, sometimes it's going to wake you up at five in the morning with a panic attack. And that's all right. You know, I can white knuckle that. I'm lucky that mine aren't that severe. It's not like I'm better and braver than other people with mental health problems that need to medicate. Just lucky that it's not as bad for me.”
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“That's a hard thing. It's a hard thing to learn. And then some other people stepped up to the plate, you know, and you go, wow, that's, I'm not really interested in fair weather friends. Everyone comes to a shop's party. Of course they fucking do. The Shobis party, baby, but the people that call you when you're at your lowest and go, fine. I love you. You're not the worst thing you've ever done.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was having panic attacks, and that sensation of a panic attack, if you haven't had one, is you can't get comfortable in your own skin. You can't sit, you can't stand, you can't eat, you can't drink. You're just like, nothing feels right. You're kind of just off. And I took like a beta blocker on the first day. And then I had the meds. I had like the beta blockers and the valley and the stuff. I got like prescribed enough to send me down a black hole. And then I didn't take anything. I just had them as a talisman of like, okay, I'll have that. But it was kind of panic attacks and waves of that and guilt and shame. And, you know, hard lessons because you find out who your friends are. A couple of people that I was pretty close to were gleeful. We're that guy's been brought down a peg or two.”
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“No, not PTSD. I haven't eaten a bomb blast, but you know, you have that feeling of what that would be like. And then the Prime Minister comes out and he's at the G20 and he does a press conference where he talks about nothing other than your tax affairs and how morally reprehensible you are. And he's the guy that brings in austerity and gave us Brexit and, you know, Scottish. You go, oh fuck, this is going to be, and then I'm doing a topical comedy show that week where we're talking about the most talked about things. And I'm the most talked about thing. How did you actually feel in that moment? Behind the scenes. So, the news broke on a Sunday. I didn't sleep for about maybe three days. I mean, you know, I didn't sleep, you know, there's always an hour here or there, but.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“A government backed tax avoidance scheme. So I was doing a bunch of those and government enterprise initiative things and trusts and quite complex financial things. So the money was rolling in and it was just all going through the accountants out to these things. And one day it all caught up. So one day I don't know how exactly, I presume HMRC leaked something, but that's okay. It went from being on the cover of the paper to going, you know, you've done an aggressive tax scheme. This is morally wrong. And I'd never thought of it as being moral. I'd never, I'd just gone, well, I pay as little as you can and whatever. I'm still kicking in a lot. And it was just like, I had that feeling. It was almost like suicide with a bungee rope. You felt like you were losing everything. And then it kind of snapped back and it was okay. But the sensation of what it would be like to be cancelled, I've had that, that kind of, you know.”
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“They go, yes, it's legal. And you go, okay. And they go, yeah, you can pay as much as you want or pay this. They use terms like it's quite an aggressive scheme. And you go, okay. There's less tax, and you've got to keep okay. That's well, that sounds good, and I suppose anyone that's ever bought an ISA has done a tax avoidance scheme.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, okay. Well, I mean, what happened was there was a. The long story, I suppose. You have an accountant, right? Your accountant says, how much tax do you want to pay? There's a scheme. And you go, yeah, great. Is it legal?”
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“Yeah. And it's like that thing of like you go, someone faking confidence is exactly the same to the casual observer. So that thing of like, what are you faking? Fake being a good person to the casual observer, the same.”
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“Yeah, I think that like, I mean, branding in a very loose sense, it's that thing of like knowing how you're perceived. So when you walk on stage, if you're like suited and booted and you look as if you were hosting a TV show, how long is it going to be before some dummy at a TV channel goes? Who should be hosting a TV show? This guy looks the part. Like that thing of that simple thing of going, this is a visual medium, I'm standing in front of people. I don't think it's not like people go, oh, you know, if you don't get them in the first five minutes, you're in trouble. Five minutes, you're having a laugh. If you don't get them in the first, before I've hit the mic, they've made a decision about me in a club. This guy, this guy fucking knows we can all relax. This guy knows what he's doing.”
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“What could you stand to do now for the next 10 years of your life that won't feel like this again? And if you're only motivated by the paycheck, it's like, well, how hard could you work?”
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“Do extraordinary things, but they put the work in. And I think people lean into the myth of that thing of like, oh, he's a genius. You read Forbes magazine or whatever about business people doing incredibly well. It's like, well, this guy's a genius. Steve Jobs thing is though, genius, genius love Bill Gates is a genius. And then you read about these guys that are like finance guys. They wake up at 5 in the morning and he only sleeps for three hours a night and he does so much and he knows everything. He works so hard. It's always both. It's always both. And then plus time, you need, you know, that $10,000 thing isn't wrong. It's just that's the minimum. What could you stand to do for 10,000 hours that won't feel like drudgery?”
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“You struck those people The delta variant dealt with They're gone, man. There's none left. I'm sorry. Hey, the good news is the pensions crisis is over But that thing of light going, well, you're gonna, you know, people do.”
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“But are we being a bit like that thing of going giving kids too much self-esteem, giving people, not kids necessarily, because this is about life stage, right? What we're talking about here isn't about when you leave college and when you're young and when you're doing something, right? There'll be people listening to this in their 40s that are going to start a business and do something fucking exceptional with their lives. There's people in their 50s that are going to do that. There's people in their 60s. I don't believe there's like a knockoff point.”
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“The work is done in the gym. By the time I get to the stage, I know it's going to be a good show. I've tried these jokes on other people. I know we're a lock, you know, 10, 20% of the evening is about the fun that happens in that room, the messing around the audience, the showing off the work that I've done in the gym, the muscle memory of knowing how to make people laugh. Great. But I'm going to arrive ready.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because I was motivated by the I'm not good enough to be here. I need to work. I need to work hard. You know, you start in comedy and you go, oh my God, I've given up everything to be a comedian. I've got 20 minutes of jokes that work. I'm going to need thousands of jokes that work. They all have to work. You get to work. What's the motivation? What's the thing that wakes you up at four in the morning? And you go, I need to fucking do this. I can't rely on just being, hey, I'm just going to wise crack and, you know, asking a comic to improvise an hour-long show is like asking a magician to do real magic.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, the idea of the inner critic is going, look, I went to a fancy university, right? And I think Cambridge is where imposter syndrome was built. There's a lot of imposter syndrome in the world, right? You arrive at a new workplace and you go, Jesus, they must have made a mistake and got the wrong CV and given me the job and I met this new college or I'm at this new, I'm starting this thing and I don't know what I'm doing. That feeling of I'm not enough and I don't know what I'm doing is why you buy the business management for Dummy's book and fucking read it the night before. It's what drives you to do the homework. So I got to Cambridge and I thought I'm not smart enough to be here. And I worked my fucking nuts off and it turned out I was wrong. And I was smart enough to be there and I did really well.”
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“At what your inner critic says about you walk back the cruelty and you gotta, okay, that's the reality. That's the starting point.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You get an A in Eng Say, just go to English lessons because we're going to get you up to a C grade in physics. I'll tell you what the world doesn't need, someone who shit at physics. Still shit at physics with no natural. So find out what you've kind of got a natural, you know, that edge thing. Find out what you have a natural ability for. What's the thing that you do best? And again, I would remind people, it's not the best in the world. Just better than anything else you do. Lean into that. Like I'm all for following your dreams if your dreams are what you're best at. And the opinions of family and friends don't count. And then it's a little bit, I suppose it's a bit tough love. It's that thing of going, look at what your inner critic says, okay, and it won't be wrong.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Recyclable metals on a favela dump in South America work as hard as you want. Nothing's ever going, you're never going to get to that level. So you work hard if you must and you work smart if you can. Anyone listening to this is already in a privileged position in that, you know, odds are Western world doing okay, have a digital phone that's you're doing better than a third of the world before you even start. You know, most people don't have running toilet. The world's in a fucking terrifying state. So it's that thing of going, well, work as smart as you can, work at the thing that you're best at. I think school teaches us maybe the wrong lesson. School teaches us a lesson about mediocrity and being all round us. And yet we live in a world that does not reward all rounders. Who gives a fuck about all rounders? If you get a D in physics.”
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“You never heard He never would have made the team, let alone being the greatest, but wouldn't have even made the team if he hadn't trained. It's a good analogy for life of going look whatever talent you have, if you don't do the work as well, it's just a waste of potential. So I think it's the absolute fundamental. Now, hard work and drudgery are not the same thing, right? There's a working smart and working hard and there's a difference between the two. Like if you're working at something and it's like, hard work alone won't do anything. It's about what stream you're in. And I suppose the extreme example would be if you're collecting”
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“Hard work is toxic. Okay. Okay, don't do hard work then. Good luck, dummy. It's just not going to work for you. That's not going to pay out because what's the metric of our society, its results? And I don't care how there's two great myths in our society, right? There's one myth is talent and ideas. And there's another myth which is hard work. And they're both bullshit. Total fucking bullshit. Because the ideas are cheaper than table salt, right? There's everyone's got ideas. I've got an idea for an app. It's the Uber for fill in the thing here. Yeah, great. Sure, sure. It's every idea is about implementation. Every sports is a good analogy, right? So Michael Jordan, greatest of all time, right? There's no debate. He's the greatest. How much did he work? Fucking more than anyone else. How much natural talent did he have? More than anyone else. What if he hadn't worked?”
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“Not in the casino. Yeah, let's put a bet on that. Let's see how that works out for them I just don't think that's going to bring him happiness”
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“It's fine. But you can't be like all these different, I think it's overwhelming at the moment what's going on in social media because it just feels like you're constantly bombarded by options and easy lives. The latest kind of iteration of the fame heaven myth is reality stars. So there's a big difference between, again, another conflation, but being a celebrity and being famous. I'm famous, but I'm not a celebrity. I'm famous for something that I do. But celebrities just themselves. It's the queen or a Kardashian. They're just themselves, and the money rolls in and it's tremendous. It's a fucking lottery win.”
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