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Jimmy Carr

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“So, what was actually because do you see? I mean, I sort of talk about a quarter-on-life crisis. Of being finding your purpose and cutting the apron strings. And that's about, I think it's about responsibility.”
2021-11-15 · The Diary of a CEO · Jimmy Carr: The Easiest Way To Live A Happier Life · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But sounds like yours happened crazy early like kicked out school, dropped out of college, and then went right upstart in the company. Like that seems And then you'd left the company by the time you were 27. You were almost on a midlife crisis, I think, at 27.”
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“Well, I think it was, again, sadness, not depression, but in my mid-20s, just thinking, is this it? Is this all there is? It felt like it was a trudge. I didn't have any purpose. I was working to live, not living to work. And I think not everyone's going to get that. Not everyone gets that break. And I'm very aware that it's not like, come on, dummies, get a job that you love and get up and you're excited about every day. It's like, it's not easy for everyone. It takes an awful lot of work to find out what that thing is that's going to make your heart sing. And then, you know, you find something you love doing and you never work again. It's not an easy thing. But if you can, it's worth betting your life on it.”
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“Again, unthinking, absolutely unthinking. It wasn't like it was like a binary thing of like going, I didn't make a choice when I was 16 to stay on at school. That was just like the sensible thing. What's everyone doing? We're all staying at school. Okay. We're all going to go to university then at 18. Okay, right. What's the best one? Okay, we're trying and get to the best one. If you can't get into that one, get into the second best one. It's like a conveyor belt. And then after university was right, everyone's getting jobs. Okay. I guess I'll get a job. But it's amazing how little thought I put into my life. Amazing, really. And when you consider that I do something that is considered to be very creative, you know, write jokes and tell jokes for a living. And you go, oh, it was a lack of imagination that kind of fucked me.”
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“It's cloistered in every sense. Yeah, so it's, you know, it is what it is. But there's, you know, it's also what are you going there for? I think I went there for In an unthinking way, sort of it was a way from something. I think I'd remembered at a very deep level not being able to read when I was a kid and kind of being in the special ed class and then wanting desperately to prove myself. And so you kind of get there and get your degree and go, right, well, I never have to worry about that again. Which is the dumbest thing in the world. I mean, you know, everyone with any kind of education has educated themselves Because, really, what do you remember from college? Years ago. Like it's whatever you're reading now.”
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“Yeah, I got diagnosed at college, but I only got diagnosed as dyslexia to get a free laptop. I mean, that was like, I didn't really particularly care, didn't make any odds. You just get longer to sit your exams. But it was, yeah, it was nice. I mean, I think I wouldn't recommend it to young people because I think Cambridge is still now very anachronistic. It's like going to college in the 1950s. It's like a time machine. It's like it's very old school and, I mean, maybe it's changed a bit, but I don't think it's changed much. It's like living in a church.”
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“But it got you to there. It's like it's funny. There's a great Chinese expression, a great old proverb. The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now. Pretty wise, those Chinese guys. They know what they're talking about.”
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“There's a bit of me that kind of I wish I'd done it sooner. And then there's another bit of me that goes. I wasn't ready for it sooner. I'm ready for it now.”
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“Suppose, I mean, I got, I was kind of late to fatherhood, I think, because I think it was, I think psychologically, I think maybe I didn't want to be. I didn't want to be our father because I didn't want to be my father. And so you find a different way through. You find different models. You know, I've got friends that are incredible fathers. And you kind of model that. And it's that thing of like, What humans do we kind of go? Well, I could kind of do that. I could see what he's doing there, and that's amazing. So that felt like, I mean, it's such a, I mean, everyone does it. It's like not a big deal that I've had a kid, but it's a big deal in my life, obviously. It's like, there's a quote in the book. I love quotes. It's like having a medical procedure where your heart now lives outside your body.”
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“Archetype. I just guess I'll live without that. You go, you find other people that are going to maybe not one other person, but you find you put your team together. You put your nurture together and you go, well, I need to find those people. You need to find, I mean, I suppose lucky in the job that I do, that you have certain, you know, people are further down the road. So if you look to them as kind of mentors or you look to them as people that you want to impress and you want to, you know, you're aware of that, what you need.”
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“Well, you know, I've just become a father and I'm acutely aware that it doesn't always work out. I haven't seen my father in 20 years, I guess. It's a long time. And I don't have a relationship with him. And listen, there's three stories, mine and yours and then the truth. But that's the fact of the matter is I don't have any relationship with my father. So that makes me, that's another lesson in life though, isn't it? She'd go, right, if you don't have a father, don't be a dummy about it. Don't not have a father. Just find a different one. That archetype is so important to our development. Having a mother is, you know, my mother died. I didn't go, well, I guess, you know, the older female nurturing”
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“I haven't had a holiday for two years. Yeah, but that thing of like we put our phones in, we check the phone in the morning to see no one interesting's died. You don't want to miss a biggie. You don't want to miss fucking Diana too, whatever the fuck. So you put the phone in the safe in the morning. And then you have your day, and then you check it in the evening, you give yourself the rush of, I've got so many emails. Oh my god. And then it's interesting though of that feeling of decompressing, and most people don't have that. Not that, you know, it's not, I'm not saying that digital world is a terrible thing. And it's clearly the way we're going. So we have to learn to live with that.”
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“I like who I am with people. That's why I like them. So when I'm with my child, I like who I am when I'm a dad. I like playing that role. I like being that part. I like who I am when I'm with my friend Johnny. And we chat about music. I like who I am when I'm with my friend Matt and we chat about aliens or whatever. Those things and spending finding more time. That seems to be the smart thing. I mean, I suppose there's simple shit like, you know, putting your phone away for a day. Have you ever done that? We did it on our last holiday.”
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“Beautiful thing. That thing of like, you're disconnecting with how you feel and how you choose to express yourself digitally. So it's an odd thing that's happening. I think feeling connected to other people and laughing with other people, I think here's how we fix it, right? It's nature and nurture, right? So oldest debate in the world, nature nurture, what's important? Well, who fucking cares? Nature's the cards we were dealt, right? That's what we got. We got this. I got this. You got that. I think, all right, you win. But that thing of going, the nature nurture thing is right. You've got the nature. That's fine. That's the cards. How are you going to play it is the nurture? And I think there's a perception that nurture is finished at 15, 18, 20, 21? At what stage do you think you're done? I'm done off to the world now, gonna kill it. It's a nonsense. Nurture is like an ongoing process of like and thinking about it, giving it even five minutes thought of going right. Who do I like and why do I like them?”
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“There's an interesting thing going on. I mean, it's interesting and terrible, where people are, I sort of quote a lot in the book. I use a lot of quotes because I sort of think quotes are the truth. It's everything else has been burnt away. There's nothing left but these six or seven words that just sum something up. And you go, that's just fucking, that's stuck around for 50 years for a reason. That's just fucking true. I think it's Alana Roosevelt that said, you know, comparison is the thief of joy, which I love because we're comparing our lives to everyone else, right? The classic, you know, millennial kind of phrase of like you're comparing your insights to someone else's outsides. But even there's another thing layered on top of that now where I don't know you online, but you have an online profile. And you might well be jealous of yourself online because you look at your pictures of yourself online and you're always smiling and you're always with beautiful people and drinking a cocktail on a beach, beautiful car.”
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“Well, I don't know. I mean, I think there's. I don't know, is the answer. I mean, I think there's the really simple shit is not getting done.”
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“Just happens. Let's just accept that for a joke I've done online. It's already out there. It's pointless me worrying about it. But that thing of like one-on-one with people, people are incredibly empathetic and kind. And there's a thing that we're doing now where we're not in a Zoom call. We're across a table for each other looking into each other's eyes, having a conversation. There's an intimacy to that. There's like a, okay, we're going to have a conversation here and we're going to see each other's points of view and we're going to talk about it. And it's there's something about this that goes back 10,000 years. Like people have always done this. The online thing what are we missing from that with that immediacy? And I think the crisis in lockdown where people were literally lockdown shut away. It's just not good for us.”
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“It's interesting how empathetic and beautiful people are one-on-one. You know, if you've ever met someone one-on-one that cancel culture is an interesting thing to talk about, right? Because I get cancelled at some stage in the next two years”
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“I don't know what to And yet, you know, and they come out for a laugh, whatever, and you go, well, I'm not. I'm the jester here. I don't have any answers, but this is what worked for me. So sharing that felt like a sort of privilege to be able to do that. And you think about your life and your childhood and the people that you met along the way that made huge differences with seemingly small interventions.”
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“Something's going on here, and why does everyone want to go to Glastonbury? Why does everyone want to go to a music festival? It's not necessarily because they, you know, I love that song. See that song anyway. You can play that song on your headphones, but they want to feel part of something and they want to be in a crowd with other people and feel a sense of belonging. There's something a little bit our society's unbelievably great. And I love that kind of Stephen Pinker enlightenment now thing about, right, it's the best it's ever been. This fucking terrible thing's happening, but it's the best it's ever been. I love that positive attitude. But there are serious issues. Especially, I mean, it seems, especially for young people, it seems like it's, I mean, part of the reason to write the book is I have a son, but also the people that come and see my shows and the people that go, well, I don't.”
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“Well, I think there is a. If we take it over not a huge, not geological time, but over like a 30 year time plan, what's happened for the last 30 years? Well, it's the rise of the individual. We've all become the individuals become more powerful and the group or the tribe has become less powerful. And that is not only a force for good. There's a negative to that as well. So people feel that families are smaller, groups are smaller. People feel like they go their own way. So we've never been more connected and felt more alienated. We set up to fail almost. There's a generation of people that feel like they're incredibly connected and they have a huge number of friends online, but they have no one to talk to. And that's a difficult thing. And they don't feel maybe part of a group. They always feel a little bit other. There's a great book called Selfie and a great book called Tribe. I remember sort of reading them back to back and thinking.”
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“Suicide as a symptom of depression, not as a thing that's a standalone, it's a symptom that there's an epidemic of it going on and people aren't taking it seriously. I think comedy is a very valuable tool as well because it lends perspective. And really what is suicide? It's a permanent solution to a temporary problem So sad when you hear about young people, it's just a heartbreaker. And I think often that thing of like purpose is the cure.”
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“100% people have done that. Come on, you're depressed. Come on. We're going to get adrenaline. We're going, you've got nothing to be depressed about. I'll tell you what's great. You know, you do that and you go, it's so crazy when you stop and think about.”
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“And sadness is better. If you could choose between sadness and depression, go with sadness because it's circumstantial. It's about nurture. It's about what's going on in your world, who you're with, what's happening. That's getting you down. Depression is a much more serious thing that people listening to this or watching this that suffer with depression. It's a serotonin imbalance in the head. It's a proper medical ailment. And we never think of it like that. We never think of it like that, right? You've never told anyone with cancer. Snap out of it. Come on. Come on. Let's snap out of it. Let's go and get a drink. Come on. But somewhat depressed, you've”
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“I make a lot of cases in the book for conflated words, like, you know, words that you sort of think they mean the same thing, but they don't. That's sort of a theme in the book of sort of going, well, I think happiness and pleasure are different. And I think envy and jealousy are different. And I think Depression and sadness are very different. I think some of it was circumstantial, which is sadness.”
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“No, I just thought was normal. I mean, genuinely, like. She was a lot of fun and she was very charismatic, and people liked her. I sort of could see that. And then you could see people are complex and nuanced and you could see that she was, you know, she didn't get out of a dressing gown most days. She didn't, she wasn't engaged in a way that was normal. She didn't take care of herself. And it's a great sadness. You know, you kind of look back and you feel a bit guilty that maybe you could have done more or I think even the debate now, the culture that we have at the moment where people are talking about mental health and they're talking about getting help and what to do and talking therapies, it feels like there's a whole world that's open now that maybe things might have been different if it had been 20 years later. But it felt like she was quite isolated and depressed.”
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“Your average white guy, but and I sound like I was privately educated, but it's interesting in the book of like people's perception of you, you have to be aware who you are and you have to be aware how you're perceived. They're both important. And I think acceptance of that is like that thing of what's the first step on the journey to finding your purpose. It's like we have to know who you are. You have to start with like there's an honesty to comedy of going, right, this is what I've got.”
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“I think to encourage, I mean, they can laugh at things slightly a myth, but yeah, they do, you know, and it does encourage you to kind of do a little bit, but it's really about that thing of it being a tribal thing where we sort of want to belong and laugh with something. And I kind of feel that as a comedian, you're part of a very long tradition. There's always been comics. You know, there was comedians and then there's Variety Acts and then there's court jesters and then there's trickster gods, you know, Anancy and the monkey king and all these things from our sort of deep-rooted culture. There's always someone saying the other, slightly outside looking in. I think being an immigrant, I think is an important thing with that. I mean, I don't read as an immigrant in any way, shape or form.”
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“Got the good shit in there, and it's about letting that out in a very organic, natural high of laughter. And I'm a huge advocate of live comedy because people laugh so much more when they're in a crowd. It's a social noise. It's very tribal. It's the idea of like, we all belong to this thing. You watch your favorite show on the phone, on the bus, and you'll smile and it won't do you any good physiologically. But if you see it in a crowd of 30 people with all your friends around, it's like, laugh, cry, laughing.”
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“Great old joke about, you know, it's like okay, tears of a clown thing. I think it's parents, I think my mother was, if you talk to comedians, you'll talk to a lot of comedians on this podcast, right? So I think the question to ask is which parent was sick? It tends to be one of them and it tends to be either physical or mental. My mother was depressed. You don't know that when you're a kid. You know something isn't right. You know you have to, the atmosphere has to be changed. So you become very good at changing people's states. And then that becomes your job. You lean into that. That becomes a very important thing that you place a lot of value on. Now, I hadn't put that together till I was in my mid-20s, but the idea of being able to change people's states, it's an interesting skill set. I mean, I like to think of myself as a drug dealer, but I'll never be taken by the feds because the drugs are already on you. You've got the endorphins there.”
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“Yeah, I think most comics, I mean, the cliche is the comedian is depressed, right? That's the go-to. And it's such a pleasing irony. Why wouldn't it be? Because you go, he makes us laugh, but he's really down. You know the old story. There's an old joke about guys like... Super depressed. Like he's going to kill himself. He's really down. And he goes to see a psychiatrist. And the psychiatrist says, well, you need to. You need to cheer up. Grimaldi is in town, the great clown Grimaldi is in town. He's the greatest clown the world has ever seen. I saw him last week. He's hilarious. You won't even be able to breathe because you'll be laughing so much and you'll forget your worries and you'll just be happy again. Then the guy goes But I am Grimaldi.”
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“Have an irrefutable talent. I just, I knew what I wanted to do. And, you know, what do you want being the key question in life? And then I pursued it kind of doggedly because I found my purpose. And that strikes me as something that's achievable, not, you know, I'm not suggesting everyone goes out and becomes a comedian, but I want better lives for everyone.”
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“100%. I mean, I think the things that dictate our lives are our beliefs. Your life is as good as you believe it's going to be. I think I'm a real advocate that disposition is more important than position. And 95% of life is how you look at it and 5% is what happens to you. So the idea that you go, what are you going to believe? Well, most of our beliefs, the beliefs that really affect us are the presuppositions that we make. We don't even think about them. We just think it's, oh, I'm not the kind of person that does that. I'm not the kind of person because I'm not from that background or I'm not from Showbiz. I don't know anyone in Showbiz, so I'm never going to be in show biz. And then you allow yourself at some stage, you go, well, fuck that. I'm going to allow myself to dream or to try and be more than. But, you know, the premise of the book kind of is there's nothing special about me. It was not preordained that I was going to be a successful comedian touring the world and being on TV. That was not like a lock.”
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“It's not about knowing about history. It's about knowing the And so Go right, well, I'll just write to that formula. Code on stuff. And I think at every level, you're trying to crack new codes. You're trying to get better at stuff.”
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“Of things you've got baggage, haven't you? Even when you're 16, you've got baggage, you go into sixth form and you're, oh, you're the tearaway kid, you're going to do that, you're going to do. Your exams. It's a Past indicates where your future is going to go, and it doesn't have to be that way. At some stage, you just have to, you cut those apron strings. academic you know i'm i'm a i'm bridg dyslexic and i didn't really learn to read and write until i was about maybe 10 or 11 Of that is like a force of will. You just go right, I'm gonna do that, I'll figure out how to do it. And often I think it's that thing of like the thing that comics do in Superpowers of comedians. What comedians do brilliantly is they're great. The most important thing in life for humans is pattern recognition. Well, that kind of works like that.”
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“In an archetypical way, still a child, because I was living my life for someone else, I hadn't really taken the reins yet. I hadn't really made a decision until I was in my mid twenties, so it felt like to me I was like a big kid when I was 25, and then suddenly at 26. Yo ho, ho of pirates life for me. join the circus, and became a comedian and started leading my own life, in a way that I think part of the reason for the book is I think a lot of people aspire to that. A lot of people want to To find their purpose and they want to pursue it. And it's very sad. A lot of people don't get to do either.”
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“A fairly rough crew. I switched schools and told a different story, not to be Machiavellian, you just kind of arrived at the new school and went, well, I guess maybe no one knows me here. I could just be whoever I want to be. And you become aware of how, and not consciously, but even at that early age, aware that you're not a noun, you're a verb, you're a doing thing, and you can do things differently and you can do better. And then so that lesson, obviously, that you then forget that and you don't make good on that again for a while. So I was kind of in my mid-20s when the next big kind of sea change of going, right, I'm going to leave. Job working for someone and go on an adventure. And it was, I mean, for me, that kind of mid-20s thing was it's not childhood, but it feels like even at 25, I was.”
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“I suppose, I mean, listen, it's when you remember stuff, we're all unreliable narrators when we look back on our lives. And I think the gift of lockdown was that memory and speed are inversely proportionate, that when you slow down in life, you remember more, and it's a great time for kind of recalibration and thinking, well, what happened? So the things that I recently became a father, so you're thinking about childhood again in kind of this new way and thinking, well, what are the things you would want for your child? What would you want to give them? And also what were those key moments where you get to decide who you are? And I think that the key bits in my childhood were the moments where you become aware you are a story you tell yourself. So I moved schools when I was 16 and I was kind of not a tear away, but I was in trouble and I was messing around and I was with a”
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“Happy. I think it's a powerful thing to aspire to. 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.”
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“I've got one fucking life, and this is it. Not preordained that I was going to be a successful comedian touring the world and being on TV. I just knew what I wanted to do and then I pursued it. I was so broken. I was so stripped of serotonin. It went from being on the cover of the paper to going, you know, this is morally wrong. I was having panic attacks. It's fucking terrifying because you think, is this my forever now? And when you're depressed, it's the appetite for life is just gone. 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.”
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