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  1. “And then other times they're time pressured. A lot of the book I wrote an hour before I fell asleep for months. It was just before bed. I would just hit like two pages. I don't know why. I've never been able to do it since.”

    2024-12-18 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Jordan Stephens on Love, Chaos and Becoming a Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  2. “Look, listen, I'm always going down YouTube holes for sure. Let's just put that out of the way. I'm always fascinated with YouTube. I will spend hours just figuring things out, researching random court cases. I don't know what's going on. And so, yeah, of course, and then I'll realize that I should be on it. But I had to embrace that side of me. I have, of course, been twice diagnosed with ADHD, but nowadays it seems like this hot button topic because I think the existence we all live in crosses over with the symptoms of ADHD so often. So people are wanting to get this diagnosis now because just the nature of existence now is so instant and reward-based that people are like, fuck, maybe I can't pay attention. I don't think anybody can pay attention. So yeah, that pressure to remain focused was heavy. And yeah, I actually ended up just embracing it, you know? I do need sometimes five, six hours, four hours of, I don't know what, and then eventually I'll hit a...”

    2024-12-18 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Jordan Stephens on Love, Chaos and Becoming a Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  3. “Dude, what 100% there's a resistance for me. I found there was resistance when writing a lot of the time. If I have a lot of time, hours and hours, I'll go to write and then I think, oh, I could do this instead or do that or that. And it is surprising how many urges there are that”

    2024-12-18 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Jordan Stephens on Love, Chaos and Becoming a Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  4. “Was it the one? Actually, no, I thought you, because that is an unfortunate agenda conformant. That is a social norm I stand against. Average, average! Responsibly sized dick energy, bro. Some people were irresponsible dicks and shit, man. It's fucking. Making points.”

    2024-12-18 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Jordan Stephens on Love, Chaos and Becoming a Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  5. “by profound philosopher ice spice my intention with this is to create something that will exist after I die for sure that has to be the dream whether or not it happens is another thing but that's the beauty of words of writing you know like you can read a sentence that was written a hundred years ago and feel as though you're in that moment that that is a fucking magic you know so that is of course the goal so yeah”

    2024-12-18 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Jordan Stephens on Love, Chaos and Becoming a Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  6. “An incredible feeling. I thank you all so much for coming. I can't even really compute it. But I am so proud of myself for doing it, which is a big thing for me to say because I am critical on myself and I struggle to self-validate, but it's quite difficult even my most talented, nasty, creative voice in my head struggles to argue with me who having written a whole book. It's reached this limits of like, how do I make Jordan feel shit about this? He's like, I fucking can't, man. It's like a whole book. Like 73,000 words. Like, well done. Fuck. So yeah, I'm glad. And, you know, I do think that with your quote from the beginning, I do consider that a lot.”

    2024-12-18 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Jordan Stephens on Love, Chaos and Becoming a Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  7. “I just really can't get over that everyone's here. I think just to give an idea of why this is so trippy for me is during the time in this book, I know this book literally, Munya's one dev one up, it came out fucking five days ago to read it. But during the time that I'm exploring in this book, I actually went to an intelligent squared event. I didn't include that in the book. But a friend of mine took me to Intelligent Square to see an author talk about their book. And that author, coincidentally, ended up helping me write my book after me writing something for The Guardian. But that event was like one of the first times in my life where I really thought, whoa, I would love to write a book and have people come and see me talk about it, I guess, in a way. And so it's tripped out because then I went through all that shit and I wrote a book and everyone's fucking here. At Intelligent Squared.”

    2024-12-18 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Jordan Stephens on Love, Chaos and Becoming a Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  8. “Listen, jealous what you and told you to stop. You know about your rappability. But I'm thinking that there's literally no other context in which I can drop a sheep related bar like that. Dang.”

    2024-12-18 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Jordan Stephens on Love, Chaos and Becoming a Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT

  9. “When we go on email saying, Do you want to be part of an Adman creation? We're like 1000%. That's British legacy right there. Dude.”

    2024-12-18 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Jordan Stephens on Love, Chaos and Becoming a Man · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT