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Jimmy Carr

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“But it's o the places you won't go Oh the things you won't do to be where you are There's a million people you're not because you did this and you didn't do that Now you could have gone down another road maybe you could have been a great sportsman maybe you could have been a great academic but you didn't go down that road you went down this road and enjoying that and being where you're at is kind of it's kind of important you know once you commit to something it's like”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Compare in despair. Everyone's having a better time. Check Instagram now. We're going to feel like dummies for sitting here having a really interesting conversation. Oh shit, we should be fucking water skiing in the Amazon. But it's being where you're at, right? So it's.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then sometimes on a fucking Tuesday, someone goes, I just went, I bumped into the guy and then we went to a thing and then we ended up at a fucking great time. It's that thing of like tricking yourself into kind of just lower your expectations, maybe a little bit less time looking at what everyone else is doing on holiday on Instagram is pretty healthy and looking around trying enjoying the little simple pleasures. And oh, we ordered in and the food was fucking amazing and it arrived hot. Great.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, you can't do them on Zoom. I can't type. My other theory on happiness is its expectations exceeded. Because listen, what a birthday is a shit, right? New Year's Eve is a fucking waste of time, amateur drinkers. I've never had a good New Year's Eve. Year's Eve is cool, and why? Because the expectation is this is going to be the best night ever. It's going to be huge. Everyone's going to be there. Even if everyone is there and it is a really good night, you go, but I thought it was going to be amazing. And it was just.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And you know you'll be there. And there's kind of a high before the high even thinking about it. But that thing of going, that's next February. I won't do. You're going to need that once a week. You're going to need that once a day. Like more of that, like leaning into that edge of going, if that's where I'm happy, that's where you should be. This is lovely actually. I think kind of the reason sort of panel shows are so popular on TV is because this is missing from our culture. Like this is how we should end every day. The reason podcasts are blowing up is because people desperately want to be in a conversation. And there's something very intimate about podcasts. There's something about the long form and listening that's really”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You get into a state where you lose track of time, that's a pretty good indicator. A lot of people get it with sports. You're doing something that you so enjoy, you're so engaged in this activity, you forget even where you are. You might get it playing video games. I get it on stage. I'm just in this moment and I enjoy, I'm totally engaged and I'm in the flow. You see musicians kind of embody it on stage. Spend as much time in a flow state as you can in life. If that can become your job, then tremendous. That success. But everything else is, who cares? But that thing is like, that's amazing. So what's your flow state? What's the state? What's the thing you do where you go? This is my shit.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And also, and how much of a kind of you kind of go, geez, I've already got a lot of stuff. Do I need any more stuff? Do I need any more? But I guess it's not about... Things or people, it's about how we spend our days ultimately. So it's not about like there isn't a God. No one's keeping school. There's no one from above who's going to go at the end of your life. Okay, let's take a look at the stats. And in my head, I kind of wish there was. Someone going, you did that many. So what's happiness? I've got a couple of theories on happiness. I think flow states are where happiness lives.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yes. But it's a tricky one, though, isn't it? Because sometimes you feel like, am I being ungrateful by wanting more? Yeah.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“We try and write in a different style. I'm going to try and be a goat. I'm going to try and be on the Mount Rushmore of Comedy. Now, I know that probably won't happen. I've got a fucking lottery ticket and I'm allowed to try and do it. And that feels like an incredibly, that feels like a life's journey. I don't know if that answered, did that answer the question? I don't know if it did. Perfect.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But that gratitude can't stop you from going, but I also want to go further and farther. And I think the great thing about being a comic is we're brilliant with failure. We made friends with failure a long time ago. We've died many times on stage. I've written more jokes that don't work than you So many more You may not have written any jokes that don't work. I've written thousands of them but that thing of like that feedback loop of failure is so it's it's such a great life lesson to learn because you go well look I can fail all the time and I'll fail and I'll fail and I'll fail and I'll eventually I'll fail so many times I run out of ways to fail and then I'll call that success And you kind of you build and build and you kind of go well what's the next thing I'm going to do I'm very lucky because I have a job which is it's a task without end and that's where I think happiness lies in those tasks without end where you go right I'm gonna spend my time trying to be a better comic”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think we're talking about here, we're talking about gratitude. It's that thing of like you're grateful for what you got. You're grateful for what you've got, just the solid state. If you lose everything tomorrow, you've got your health. And there's people out there that don't. And you've got friends around you. Great. That gratitude can't be stifling. They're like practicing gratitude. I mean, they've done all the statistical studies on it. It makes such a difference to your life to be grateful for what you have and to go, right, this is fucking amazing. Like, you know, the older you get, the more your friends die, the more you go, fuck, and never got to see this, never got to enjoy that thing, never got to sad. Had a friend pass away recently and you just become aware of your mortality and you're so grateful to be here and to be in this game and to be”
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“I don't want you to have that. I don't necessarily want it, but I don't want you to have it. Fuck that guy. He shouldn't have that. Why do you get given that? That's some bullshit. Envy's really good. Envy is like, it's what you want. It's like motivation. It's like, oh, that guy's got an electric scooter that looks really cool. I'm going to get one of those. Great. You know what tells you what you want. It tells you what's the thing that you're attracted to. So I think it's like it can be a real force for good. So that thing of like when you were a kid and you're looking at the other kids and they're suited and booted and clean and tidy going to school and their parents are there and you go right, I'm building that for me.”
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“10,000 years, you know, longer, the longest time we were in tribes between 60 and 100 people. Everyone knew everyone. A stranger was a weird thing. And now we see strangers all the time and we act like it's normal, but it ain't. And so that desire to belong, to be famous, what is was ever thus. It's always been that way. It was in ancient Rome people wanted to be famous and wanted to be adored and wanted to be. That's like it's valid. And, you know, how do you deal with that? How do you get that thing? And if it helps them strive, I think I make a real distinction between jealousy and envy. In the book, and I talk about jealousy being bad. I don't want you to have that.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, but I could see that the idea of going, I think a lot of that is like. That tribal thing of going on would be recognised. I'm in a very privileged position in that I'm famous. And I would argue. That's the norm That's the norm for the longest time in human history that everyone knew everyone. We used to live in what for like”
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 wishing wells work, right? But they don't work when you think they work. There's no magic. The magic is, if there is any, knowing what to wish for, knowing what that thing is. Someone says, I want a million pounds. You go, you don't know what you fucking want. You want tokens for things that you might want in the future. What do you want? What are you doing? What are you trying to be? Who are you trying to become?”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Self-esteem, great. Rolls-Royce. You want excitement? We've got Ferraris for you. You want to eat your dick sucked? We got a Porsche. Whatever the thing is, you know, you got that. There's a different one, and they're playing on different emotions. And I think being aware of, I mean, I come back to it all the time. What do you want is the fundamental question. Like in any scenario, you sit down to eat what do you want. What do you want from life What do you want? What's the thing that you want? And often it's”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Is this it? And then they want something like excitement. So what do they buy? Sports car. Is it exciting? Oh, fucking know. I mean, maybe. If you're super into cars, I guess it's good. But like it's all advertising speaks to this, right? I know I'm right because all advertising ever is about it's no longer about the functionality of the product. It's about the, well, what do you want? You want to feel like...”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, think about what a midlife crisis is, right? So I talk a lot about midlife crisis in the book, and you go, Well, midlife crisis is someone that's found their purpose and they've done their thing, and then they've gone, is this it?”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Very deep, man, because it's that thing where you go, I feel. Empathetic towards the younger you. That's like a tough thing to have to go through. But you go kind of great kind of great. Look at how far you got. Away from. Without even the towards, without even the amazing kind of, you know, and it's like, well, what next? It's a sad story, but then you look at people that got given everything and have done nothing. Because they had no sense of purpose. They had no fire under them. They had no, I think, Yeah, it's kind of an inspiring story. But then there's no. Suppose it's like what's going to motivate you next? What's going to be the thing that you go?”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But that's like that part of your life is kind of over now, right? It's like, what was that thing for you? What was the...”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Everything's fine. Well, of course, because it is like a, if you think about legacy now becomes the afterlife. and fame and fortune become the recognition of people that we don't know becomes a type of heaven. So I think that it's a perfectly rational thing to, you know, are you moving towards something or away from something? Well, in an ideal world, it's kind of a mix of the two. And at what stage do you personally, and I think probably if I was, I'm not a psychotherapist, but I would say you need to build some ritual around it. And I'm sure you did when you sold your company or left. He built some ritual, have a trip, do something shamanic, and go we did it, we're okay, we have enough. Now focus on towards something.”
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. I think it's a really interesting point because as someone that lost their faith. I think fame and fortune are the secular heaven. We get rich and famous and everything's okay.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“enough. What's enough for you? What's enough? There's two things going on, right? There's safety and security. There are caveman thing of like going, we need to be secure. That's about a bear not attacking, right? We feel pretty secure in our worlds, right? And then scarcity is about, it's another caveman thing of like going, okay, so we need to collect some stuff because winter is coming, so we need some coin, we need a little bit of gold to take care of us. How much is enough? I mean, there's going to be a trillionaire. Next five years is going to be someone's going to be a trillionaire. It's going to be in the news. You know why? Because a billion wasn't enough. And the millionaires and the billionaires, trillionaires, but they're working for money. The money is the important thing. That's the whole center of their being.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Amazing story about Kurt Vonnegut and Joseph Heller. There are a party in New York and the party's fucking incredible, right? So it's in the Hamptons, right? So the guy's married to a supermodel. He's got Warholes. He's got picasos, the houses. Unbelievable, like the Wolf of Wall Street party. Incredible, amazing party. Everyone's there. And Kurt Vonnegut, incredible writer, says to Joseph Heller, this guy made more money one day last week than you made out of Catch twenty two. Knight laughed at him. And Joseph Feller goes, yeah, but I got something he'll never have.”
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“Nothing, like in the early phase of your life and fucking buy anything because it's like, you know, the things you won't end up owning you. Like the payments on a sports car nearly stopped me going to comedy because, well, what ties you down? If I'd bought a house in the 90s when I was working for Shell, it would have been a great investment and I never would have left because you're paying that mortgage, you're doing that thing. What do you need? What do you need the money for? What are you using the money for? You know, when you take away the commute and you take away the lunch that you're buying and the night out, the weekend and a couple of drinks, because you need some fun. It's amazing how little when I first year in comedy, I made literally no money. I mean, literally nothing. First money I got was £80 in cash for driving five hours to Plymouth and back, but had a little bit saved, had this like five grand from Shell, and I was living at my mum's initially. So it was like, it's fine. I had enough. You know that.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I mean, that thing of like, I nearly fell into that trap. I was like, the things you own end up owning you. Like there's nothing you can buy in the mall that you give a fuck about in five years time.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no, there's a Jordan Peterson one understanding myself, like 100 questions, and it tells you things. That's worth. I had a crack at that recently and really enjoyed it because you get the results and go, I agree with that. So that's surprising. It's interesting. It's almost like a Horoscope. Like everyone likes their horoscope, right? And I think those personality tests kind of can be very, very useful for going, well, how are you going to find your edge? What's the thing you enjoy? Is it being with people? Is it on your own? Are you introverted, extroverted? Myers-Briggs thing might lead you in a direction of going, well, I can't be. I'm not going to be a salesman Going to be, and these are jobs we're talking about as opposed to something beyond that, like a purpose, a career, an entrepreneurial spirit.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, I literally went through two books, Zen and the Art of Making a Living, I would recommend to people. It's still available. And there's a book called What Color is Your Parachute. They're quite corporate, both in even Zen and the art of making living is quite corporate, but it's basically you write essays about yourself. And it's a workbook. It's like a big, chunky workbook. I did both of them. And it kind of, and for me, I kind of then slightly threw it away and went, show business, baby. But it's interesting of like knowing yourself. Like who really knows you? Your friends probably know you. Ask them. Ask them what they think. It's an interesting sort of process to kind of go like, and you could be a ripe old age and this would still apply. Like, do you know who you are, how you're perceived, and who you really are, what you feel like, because it's that thing where you go, like those personality tests online are not dumb to do.”
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“all the hours, and you're working smart. You're working out the thing you're best at. You're kind of super focused on that.”
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, right? So it's a really good feedback loop of like for anyone listening to this of going, what do you find easy? What's your edge? That's the other thing I talk about a lot in the book, your edge. What's your thing? The thing that you do better than anyone else. You don't have to be the best in the world, by the way. You don't have to be better than anyone else. But what's the thing that you're good at that you could get better at that you could be better than you last year? That's the key thing because take that thing if you can find out what that is for you and then apply some hard work and time that's your luck. Be lucky. I always say that. I like be lucky. But that's what I mean by luck. Luck and happiness being sort of the same in German. It's a lovely sticky phrase. Be lucky. Like if you put that in, you're buying lottery tickets every time, right? So that hard work you put into the business, it's like lottery ticket, lottery ticket, lottery ticket, lottery ticket. And hey, Presto, one of them hits because you're there all the hours working.”
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“And it's weird. I had like a reputation when I started doing comedy of being. The hardest work in comic,'cause I went out 390s a year every year the first five years. Just like was just on it. I was so feckless at work. It's a really good indication of if you're doing the right thing. Like I used to put in a meeting at 11 a.m. on a Friday and another meeting and at 2 a.m. so that I could go to a movie in Leicester Square and be back and just go oh yeah nothing happened Like a lazy fucker.”
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“Like ripping up your CV metaphorically, going, I never need this again. No one needs to know how I did in my elbows ever again. No one gives a fuck about my degree. I mean, maybe some of this stuff will come in handy on QI 10 years later, but otherwise, who cares? And you're just off doing your thing. And it's, you know, none of that was wasted. I mean, an education is an incredible thing. What a gift to have. But it just felt like it was kind of freedom. And they did a little voluntary redundancy thing, which was meant to get rid of the dead wood. It was meant to get rid of people at, you know, 55, 60, and just get them out the door so more people could come in. And I was on the management graduate scheme thing, blue chip thing, and just went, yeah, what would I get if I left? I went five grand and I went, I'm out. Fucking great, not only my leaving, they give him my money to leave.”
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“To go and try and get a job on these things. And he sat me down in his office and just went. Can't see it. I can't see it. Just you're just going to have the same problem somewhere else. I just don't see it. And that was kind of enough. It was enough that he saw me as like a funny, nice guy. I just went, yeah, this isn't for you. You're in the wrong stream. You know, so the ladder, the analogy of the ladder that you've climbed is leaning against the wrong wall. And there's no finer...”
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“No But that would be good. So that's the typo. So I was working for an advertising company and then I figured out, okay, advertising, this is some bullshit. Who are these people calling me asking me for shit are marketing managers? Right. Get into marketing. So got a job with Shar. So I'm working for Shell. And then I kind of figured out, look, I'm not happy here. I was kind of low energy. I was not the funny guy in the office. I was just like, this is bullshit. We're all working here for shareholder value. I could give a fuck. I went, okay, well, what's a cooler job? What's a better version of this? So I went and did like the McKinsey Boston Consulting interviews. So I was like, I said to my boss, that's a nice guy, Mark, Mike. I said, look, I'm going to.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Okay, so I had a boss there, a guy called Mike Harth, who I recently kind of got back in touch with a little bit. So I was working for Shell. I initially worked for an advertising agency.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I write in the book quite a lot about money, about the idea of like, what is it? What's going on there? Because it's such a powerful thing. We spend so much of our lives. We give up so much for these tokens. And it's that classic line that, you know, to buy shit, we don't need to impress people. We don't like Who was it? It's Byron has the quote, money is a magic lamp. You have to know what to wish for. You have to know what you want. Otherwise, what you're doing. I mean, we're sort of in the city of London now. There's people working in the city that are just like they're making huge money and they're”
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“Yeah, but we listen Bob Dylan got to this before we ever did. We all have someone to serve. That's just the nature of life, right? So listen, I work for myself and I'm a fucking boss and making huge money. I've got an audience to serve every night. I've got 2,000 people that need to laugh for two hours, three times a minute. That's my boss, right? So I've got to lean into, I've got to make sure that they're happy or none of this can happen. So we all have people to serve. Of course, that's part of life. You have, but you find out, you do it on your terms, in your way. Great. I don't mind the call at 3 a.m. I don't mind the audience wanting more. That's great of the travel anything. That's all fine because I have the true norm. And then it's the other thing on life where you kind of go.”
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“Give you 35 grand. The compromise on everything and always be tired and just work to my time. And people go, okay, that's the thing of like working for someone else is, I think, that's the big shift, right? So stand up is a metaphor in the book. I'm not trying to get people to become stand-ups. Frankly, I don't need the fucking competition. The idea of going and doing your thing, even if it's less successful, but doing your thing being your boss, being your CEO, great. I'm all about that when people tell me they've started a little business or done a little thing, you just go, yeah, fucking boss because you get like serial entrepreneurs because they do it once and go, yeah, I'm not working for anyone. I'm not.”
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“I didn't leave my job to be rich and famous on TV. I left my job. Yeah, Yoho ho a pirate's life for me. We're doing comedy. I'm doing a gig above a pub. Someone gave me twenty pounds cash in hand. That was, I mean, it was crazy. I'd had like a good job, but it's that thing where you go, the good is the enemy of the best. How much to not live your life? How much to not follow your dreams? How much do I have to give you across a table? Now, I'm saying this to you now, right? You're a wealthy man, you're an investor or whatever. So it's going to be a high figure. But for most people, in their mid-20s, they've just left college or early 20s. They've loved college. And you go.”
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“I couldn't care less. But that thing of like what remains when everything is burnt away. That's what I get from that story. So, if you burn everything else away, what's essential you? What's the thing that's left when there's nothing? Interesting, and you go through trials in life, you go through hard times, and what remains.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I went to Jerusalem. Yeah. I went to Jerusalem and I had a look around, and you go, Oh, this is some bullshit. This is Disney. I mean, Jerusalem's one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I would encourage anyone to go there. It's wonderful. And I love Israel. You go there and you go, this is 900 years old, not 2,000 years old. Please. Let's start kidding ourselves. This is not, none of this happened. This is Disneyland. And I think there's a stage of throwing the baby out with the bathwater. And then you read more, I don't know if you've kind of done this, but you read about the myth and what it is and what it, you know, the story of Christ is interesting. It's an interesting story, but the story, the myth of it is interesting, not the factual character.”
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“If I'm right about this Then all those is not, yeah, it's good news for me and the other Christian boys, but it's very bad news for Ishmael. Tarek, it's bad news for you.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like an addict never really gets over an addiction, they just get addicted to something new. And I think that's why I think purpose is the thing. And I think purpose as well for someone who's had a religious upbringing to go, right, well, I'm going to, what's the new thing? What are the new rules for me? What are the rules? What's my morality? What's my life going to be like? So it's very exciting. I mean, it really feels like it's a... I would encourage people to kind of think about it. And for me, it was just the basics. I don't know how you lost yours, but mine was like so basic.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You're kind of still the focus of that religious thing of going, well, I've lost my religious belief, so now atheism's my new religion.”
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“And they don't lose it overnight, so it's still. It's like people that are well, I live as a hippie commune with no belongings. You're still putting money at the center.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Aesthetic. It's like it's a rush of blood to the head. It's like, I've got one fucking life, and this is it. And we're in it right now. And there isn't a second to waste. Do this. What are we doing? What am I doing? What's exciting? What's fun? And kind of stand or fall. It doesn't matter.”
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“Right. I was a bit late to the party. I was about 24, 25, something like that. And I don't view it. I don't view atheism as like this isn't going to be. Christopher Hitchens and Dawkins Know it's not like a dry intellectual”
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“It's your road to Damascus. It's your, oh, this is my one life. I mean, I think my loss of religious faith was a very important part of my, um, Life. I think it was a huge thing of going religious faith for me was the ultimate procrastination. It was about the next life.”
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“40. Where do you draw the line? The answer is somewhere. Somewhere you draw the line. And there'll be 16 year olds listening to this going, yeah, I'm not blaming anyone for anything. I'm just doing this myself”
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“It's about going, oh, I'm in charge of this. I can't blame anyone else. This is all me. This is all my fault, which should be an empowering phrase but sounds terrible. But it's all my fault, the idea that right, I'm in charge. And I think it's often that thing of like the expectation of parents or whatever it is, the idea that you're living your life vicariously through someone else or someone's living vicariously through you rather is like JK Rowling said this brilliant thing about where do you draw the line? Where do you draw the line on taking responsibility for your life? Because if a 16-year-old kid says to me, yeah, I'm kind of fucked up, but my parents are dicks. You go, oh, that sounds fair enough. Yeah, okay. But if a 40 year old says the same thing, you go, motherfucker, please, come on.”
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