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Richard Hammond

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“That sort of what came out of what I had with that quite teary conversation over an egg sandwich one morning with Tim Jackson twenty.”
2023-02-13 · The Diary of a CEO · Richard Hammond: The heartbreaking conversation that I am STILL avoiding! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But I actually did a filmed review of my company car sent off to Pete Baker, and he said yeah, okay, well, I can't promise you a lot of work, but I'll give you some. So I had to leave Renault, so I went back to Tim and said, Tim, I'm going. And I tears in my eyes when I said it we were both heartbroken,'cause I really enjoyed working with him. And in fact, I went back in end of that week and said, no, I can't go, I'm staying. But then I went back in on the Monday and said, no, I am going. And he absolutely said, no, you've got to go, that you have to follow it while you can. And I think that applies to everything and anything. Because you won't always be able to. Maybe Maybe that's what it distills down to if you're thinking, should I do this? Well, can you do this? Am I there come a time when you can't? In which case you should.”
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“He only gave me the job because during the interview he'd been, he realised I was wearing a pair of shoes, I had buckles and laces. And he'd drawn them throughout the interview and he said to his secretary, look at that. I think we've given the job. He told me to follow. It sounds really cheesy and I don't want to dress it up as follow my heart, but I knew I resigned twice because I got the job for a bit of TV work.”
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“Oh single greatest piece of advice I've ever been given and I've known some really wise people Tim Jackson, who is my boss at Renault we lost him last year absolutely tremendous man and he He will have given me lots of advice'cause he was. It was to Tim Jackson actually that I'd broken out of radio because I was starving to death and realised I was never going to get to make motoring TV shows based in a bedsit somewhere in the north. I needed to get down to where the work was. So I got a job at Renner UK in the press office and my boss there was Tim Jackson who was a PR director and just the loveliest man.”
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“They're the most important people in my world, but I've been taken away, I've taken myself away from them too much over the years, in order to support them. But actually the support they needed sometimes was me being there, and that's the hardest thing. And I can't undo that. And there's me saying I have no regrets. Regrets are funny. I don't feel it as a real pain. I wish I could go back and change it because I know I can't. So I simply don't feel it in that way. But I do wish I'd found a way of being there with and for them more, just as me rather than as me being away in a jungle or on a glacier, earning lots of money and sending it home. Yeah, I include Mindy in that. They all three shouted me when I go home. But they're the reason The reason I do And that is”
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“I can afford to look after you for a bit longer, so if you want to go and explore it and then in five years time you'll be able to say yeah I did it or I did it and failed That's better than not So they're already thinking quite wisely about their futures”
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“Myself after doing some show or other, yeah. That is them I would say Well, they already are, in a way, they make wise decisions. The clever willow had got into the younger she'd got into a couple of good universities to do psychology. She loved it, she's interested in it, she's bright, the both are. But she'd gone a bit quieter bed and said, What's up? She said, Well, I'll do the psychology, but we know the only thing I've really been passionate about is horses and matters equestrian. And I don't want to get five years from now and think, oh, I could have done it. I said, no, you're absolutely right. If there's one piece of luck, you need to take advantage of it that I'm not.”
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“Men more so because they're useless at in realizing that these things have value and it's okay. And it doesn't mean you have to turn into something you don't want to turn into or change as a person. I have really rugged chats with my mate's from forces. Often soldiers are pretty good at it nowadays ex military yeah fess up to how you feel Why not? Nothing to be ashamed of.”
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“It doesn't have to be artificially gentle and all on a bed of cotton wall. We can still take the piss. We can still have a laugh, but we are doing it with love. We are.”
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“I can't remember when that happens, I know, I mean, I'm off up to the lake district this weekend, and I will see Les, my oldest mate, is a shepherd up there, an AD who runs the bridge, and my two brothers are coming with me. Then we're going to have a sort of supper on the Saturday evening. We're going to cook. And it is the most natural thing in the world, for that's five, four very disparate people with very disparate jobs as a head teacher, stockbroker, the television presenter, businessman, a man running a hotel and a shepherd. But we will. We'll share things very happily. And it feels the most natural thing in the world. It doesn't feel like let's be really serious and let's share Anima's feelings and let's be supportive and not deal and it can be knockabout.”
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“But that's different now, surely, I think it is far easier. I mean, I think the patriarchal society and all the stereotypes and tropes contained within it have done just as much damage to men in many ways, different damage. But that inability to share, that inability to show. I think that has changed or is changing, though I have to be very careful here because I live in a frightly nice middle class bubble and have fallen foul of this before because I live in a very happy world where there is no in my little world there is no racism, homophobia, sexism, bullying. It's nice and is easy to forget. And then you say things based on that And then you look out at the broader world and realize, oh, hang on a minute, that really isn't doing much for the situation of somebody living here or coping with that.”
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“Oh God So insecurity not being sure of the way forwards. are simply tiredness, but are quite enjoy that I enjoy being up first. It's dumb, but I like it if I've got people if we are all away with work. signal to myself Wretch, you're more important than all of this and that's important and partly to signal to the To them that no young girl Don't worry, I got this. I've not only got this, I've got this before I've got this, so we'll be fine.”
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“But also, I mean, you don't want to show weakness, and that again is perfect on both my daughters and my wife, they're all into horses, but my youngest daughter Willow, her horse was unwell. And she pointed out to me that they have evolved to be incredibly good at masking pain and discomfort because they're a herd animals. if they're not in the herd, they die. So they need to hide it, they need yeah, just one of the lads here I am fine. Yeah, I'll run with you over there and they will do because that's the only chance of survival the moment they say, oh, I'm feeling a bit crooked, so I might stay here. I'm not saying we're horses.”
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“And you don't have to imagine a world without you in because you won't be in it. So you are only in your world for as long as you're in it, and that's eternity as far as you're concerned”
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“To make it things. Yeah. But it's not surprising that we don't want to face it. Surely not. Requires a procrastination expert who I did hear, and I have heard him on the radio as well and I always laugh about it turns up. Obviously the science of procrastination. But I don't think it requires that to realise of course we don't want to know we're aware of ourselves, we're aware of the fact that we're aware of the world and we enjoy that process. Daffodil doesn't have to stand around worrying about being a daffodil. It just is a daffodil. I think as you get older you can make that process easier. I do find practicing a bit of mindfulness or Thinking about things, asking about things, talking about things can make it easier.”
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“quite simply facing something I wouldn't want to face. It's my own doom, it's all that it's I would find it very difficult to talk to my family and say right, this is what's coming. I know I'd be all right as I've said, if you're in a confused state, it doesn't bother you, but I'd feel bad putting that on them. Yeah, I want them to have a future full of hope and clarity and energy and vigour and potential and fun. And I don't want Interrupt that As heavy But life is though, isn't it?”
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“They call it Los Keys syndrome, the doctors did when I first came home from brain injury, and they have it with a lot of patience because, you know, they would lose their keys and go into an absolute flat tailspin panic. Oh no, I've lost my keys. No, you've just lost your keys. It happens. I am quite forgetful. I'm generally not paying attention, generally thinking about something else. The next thing, and therefore I do drop the ball, I forget stuff, I lose stuff, I forget keys. But that's just me. That's not a function of something going wrong.”
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“Yeah, because, you know, there was a bleed on the front. It could mean there's an increased risk. I don't know. I need to find out. I have been too scared to do it, but I do need to, um... Weirdly on the way here at a stop off for a medical when you're doing a production you'll know you have to have a medical. Kind of another piece of paper, please. I'm still going. Very nice doctor, and at the end I said, yeah, I should definitely, I need to book myself in for one of those midlife MOTs to see if everything's okay. And I wanted to say and to check there's nothing going awry up here. But I'll chicken I probably need MRI scan. 53, you know, your memory does start to get a bit.”
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“No I worry I do worry about my memory'cause it's not brilliant My working memory is very large must have a processing memory in the moment so I can still read a page of script and deliver it. But my longer term No brilliant I have to consciously write memories and work hard to recall them sometimes now that might be because I'm fifty it might be fifty three might be because I'm working a lot and I'm tired it might be the onset of something else”
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“Probably, but there's probably remnants of everything that's happened to you in your life and everything that's happened to me and mine”
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“horrible circularity to that type of injury and I have a close friend who again was similarly injured falling off a horse'cause he's an and again massive similarities are a more different man you couldn't imagine. He has dignity, status, gravitas, great family, everything I'm not. But his experience of recovery very.”
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“Anger was I was angry for a while, not massively, but anger is a problem. In people recovering from brain injury. The weirdest thing though, I've chattered so many people who've recovered from acquired brain injury, acquired in so many different ways from being shot to falling off a ladder to a car crash, whatever. and the similarities are astonishing in the road to recovery really are. confusions, the weaknesses not Gil. I mean I wanted a t shirt on the front said I'm okay, stop asking and on the back that said I'm still poorly, you know because if you run for a bus since you ran for a bus, but if one were to run for a bus and you twist your ankle and you sort of carry on running on the I'm all right the fine it's a bit like that with what I'd done but of course what I'd injured was me I am And how I see you where I am.”
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“drive of my house, and I felt this sudden welling, upsurge of love in my chest. What's that? This is not that long, I've still on the road to recovery, I suppose, and eventually identified I'd walk past my old Landrover, which I do love, but only'cause I quite like it's an old land rover, but it just triggered this absolutely. made me think, and if emotions can be that profoundly affected by what was just a mix up of chemicals and electricity in my head, then I am more aware of I don't listen to my emotions too closely if I'm very, very tired, or if I've had a big night out with the boys the night before, if I've drunk red wine, I do not tune in to see what I think about anything because it's irrelevant for a day. Those are the rules. I've been quite lucky for that reason. I've had that slightly more objective look. my own”
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“Some of them were really weird moments and I still get an echo of it, I remember having been institutionalized for a long time in hospitals and actually in recovery when I thought I was free. I wasn't really, I was still being monitored and I was still being carefully guided but when I was really free I would have been coming into London to do something and I could open the wardrobe door and just look at all the shirts and just trying to work out Oh it was too much Choice was a problem. I found choice really difficult for quite a long time. But also I'm feeling your emotions Derailed or interfered with. as a result of what is only a neurochemical imbalance. That's all we're talking about, it's just chemicals and electricity. I was walking across.”
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“I mean, I was told Mindy was told by the doctors that a frontal lobe brain injury. would possibly lead to me having a greater propensity for obsession, compulsion, depression, paranoia. Mindy left a pause, my wife and Justin, you didn't meet him before the crust did quite funny to be fair. That's quite a good line. I think I did suffer a bit. I'd suffered all of those things to a degree. Yeah. Insomuch as I became aware of them as a thing because I could feel them from the inside and see through them to the outside. So yeah, I was aware of them All of those things obsession, compulsion, paranoia, yeah.”
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“Who possibly did that, but then Getting older does that passing forty, passing fifty does that. It's in line with everything else that's ever happened in my life. It doesn't really stand out massively. It did for a while. But it doesn't stand out as a particularly that's or hang everything on that, because there's also passing forty. There's all those other milestones that we all have and processes that we go through and subtle and not so subtle shifts in our priorities, needs. That happens. That's just woven into the fabric of my life, and it's just one couple of stitches in it.”
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“Kind of know because it was always assessed as risk I knew there was risk and we had done everything we could mitigate against that the air ambulance came I was saved No, it has done more latterly, but that's because I'm getting older, I think. It didn't really radically change it.”
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“Because I think the question of what happens since we are aware of our own mortality, we're aware of the world and we're aware that it's quite nice being here to be aware of it. And if that's one possible resolution, one possible, that might be where it goes. That's all I believe.”
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“I was walking up the hill towards a train, I was grew increasingly conscious that I'm going to be in trouble for carrying on No, no, I'm going to carry on. I just want to press on. And then as I reached the tree, it was a very clear, oh no, I really am going to be in trouble. I better go back. And that's the point. I just related that story as a unit to Mindian. It was very clear when I was brought out of Coma shortly after. And that's when it had happened. I mean, it could be a story. Don't forget your brain fills in things after the fact. A sense of recollection is all you need for something to be in the past. Doesn't have to actually be in the past. And I've retained I've gained immense comfort from it, I find it very comforting and warming to think, so I continue to think it.”
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“Went to the same tree. Yeah, if my mind takes me around there, and that thought echoes for all of eternity as far as I'm concerned, and really the universe only exists as far as I'm concerned or you're concerned. It's only your perception of it, and if that last moment is no longer constrained by worrying about heartbeats or of the seasons it's kind of an eternity isn't it? I wouldn't mind hanging around by that tree forever.”
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“Which gives me immense Because it will do that eventually, anyway. I know that's where I'll go. And given that at the moment of of the body shutting down, of it stopping to do all the things that it does, you're no longer tied by all those by time not biological rhythms, lunar rhythms, none of those matter. Beholden to them anymore, which is a kind of eternity, so if my last thought had been walking round that tree in I was up there two weeks ago.”
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“Oh yeah, your body and mind have never existed separately, they've only ever existed as one and one needs the other, and compliments and one is the other. Which is why If in that coma state, and it's only an altered state of consciousness, I'm not dead, I picked up on the emotion from Mindy, the anger, and thought the dream was honestly all going to be in trouble now. It's not funny anymore. It's a very distinctive flavor of, you know when you're feeling you're being a bit naughty and you're being cheeky, you're getting it, and then you realize, oh no, I really am in trouble, and that's when she was really roaring and shouting. And yes, her mind can do an awful lot with our bodies. There's enough evidence of that over the years.”
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“Because she was cross she didn't want me to die. I think there's lots of people who have done that. I think I do that. when all else is tried and failed, if somebody is lying there last resort. Don't you dare? Because you know. You want I think we'd all do Not just a movie trope. You are calling to somebody, and I think we know in our heart of hearts we do have a great deal of independence in terms of what happens to us. Our mind is a powerful thing. Mind and body are one. friend of mine, chiropractor, he'll kill me if that osteopath friend of mine, Steve. Sorry, Steve. Osteopath very well read man. And we were talking about mind and body as one and about bringing, I said something about bringing mind and body to work together and all together. And he said, well, yeah, well, it is all one because it's never been apart.”
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“Yeah, I was, as we held in coma because brain was expanding post-crash, so it was, they were holding me in coma, but it was looking very, very bad. And they had called Mindy in And they said, I think we're losing him Alek do. She said, Is there anything I can do? Not really. Try anything, can I shout, yeah? So she roared and shouted at me, don't you dare really quite swear and cross?”
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“All you've got to do is cope to support them in that happiness. Doesn't matter if they can't remember who you are, what anything is, if they're happy they're happy. And that's that. And I”
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“through whatever degenerative form of illness losing memories and I always say to him is she happy? Yeah fine if I go to see them as you're coming to the pub to see me three or four times and is equally happy each time that's all right doesn't matter and I was perfectly happy reading the same newspaper every single day several times a day it was by my bed I just pick it up and oh brilliant I'd sit down and read it put it down A minute later gone until Mindy took it away because she was sick of seeing me read it. But it was more distressing. And really the message there is if somebody is in that confused state of whatever variety and for whatever reason. If they're happy, they're happy.”
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“Yeah, Mindy was called she was on the road, she was called by Wilman. They all spoke. It was hard my daughters were young. and for them to grasp it was pretty difficult. Yeah, it's disruptive, it's horrible, and it's In my memory are all over the place anyway, cause Bad, very bad post traumatic amnesia for weeks like a one minute memory. Mindy, my wife always says I was the nicest I've ever been. It was lovely apparent I was perfectly happy which does make me and has made me think often since that I've got a friend who's we all have friends perhaps or ourselves whose parents are”
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“And then I wasn't conscious again until in hospital, and I was conscious apparently when they got to the car but of no recollection, because the damage was done, brain, decelerative, sloshing forwards her frontal lobe bleed,'cause just decelerating upside down using my head as a brake it isn't good for you.”
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“I didn't know how fast I was going, but I knew it was fast. And I just thought, well, I'm going to die now. Again, I'm on record as saying this, and I don't want to go on about it because I get self-conscious, I don't want anybody to think, oh, stop going on about that, and I'm not, but if you are interested, I found it interesting that there was no fear associated with that. There was no Oh no there was genuinely it was answering a question that kind of at the back of my mind I'd always wondered and I think a lot of us do all of us When am I going to die? How? Why? And it was like oh it's now that's the answer that's the next thing to do That was it”
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“All I recall is a sense of oh no foot going towards a break and realised I was doing three I didn't know but I was doing three hundred just shy of three hundred and twenty miles an hour so brakes I don't do anything The car what had happened is the front tyre had delaminated and blown The car had skewed right and was going off the road but it was still doing two hundred and ninety miles an hour it started to roll I'd pull the lever for the parachute which was all that mattered to me when I finally weeks or months later became aware of what was happening I needed to know had I done that because I looked at my children and thought if I've nearly denied you a father for the rest of your lives because I'm an idiot and I did the wrong thing I wouldn't forgive myself but I did do the right thing so it just it was never going to stop it so then it went over and it rolled and as it went over I knew you know there's no roof just a roll bar”
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“and I'd done all the day's runs and the director came over and said Rich, I've got permission for one last run. Ah, brilliant, right. We were happy with how it's gone, but let's get one more bag of shots. I was aware something had happened.”
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“Well We'd had a discussion in the office and I have told this story before, and some people you might be bored of it, sorry. Andy Wilman, the editor had said he'd got the chance for this car to be driven, and I'd gone into the office saying, look, I just want to go really fast. What's the fastest we can go? It's that dumb an idea. They came up with this car and I went to drive and I turned upon the day, did numerous runs in the thing. It was pretty basic and crude. Really quite fast, especially when you lit the afterburner. Check propelled dragster. I didn't have a speedo in the car because I knew I'd be chasing speeds and that would be dangerous, so there was no speedo. I didn't know how fast I was going until after the event. You stopped it to stop it from high speed at a pull parachute cord. Stop the parachute came out and stopped it.”
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“I just don't feel it. Good and bad. I'm not saying this is a good quality, but I just don't feel it. And not because I engineer it out of myself. I simply don't feel it because that's the way I've gone. It also helps you sort of live now, which is that's a huge part of the answer. You could continue being driven as you are by work for the rest of your life if you are able to be mindfully present and actually experience it, then great, all of that will come into it.”
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“It's my dog. Yes, but you didn't, and there's no magic in this. It's simply what happens is what happens, and that's the way you've gone and the way your collected experience. If you imagine you are the sort of front of a tsunami of stuff, and that's the way it's taken you, that's the way it's taken you. There's good and there's bad within it. I don't. I never feel actual solid regret. That's the way it went.”
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“I our life would be so different because I've worked sort of in and out of London for twenty five years, and we've lived deliberately out of London, they've been raised in Herefordshire, that's their county, that's where they belong. My eldest I bumped into her in London this week. She popped into the flat, and she'd just been out in a pub in Fulham, and pretty much everybody in there was from her county, Herefordshire, and she knew them all. And that's important. She can drift around London and know people, or she can drift around her home county, and the same for Willow. And that's important for them. They've got a bigger view of the world, but they still have a home to go to, and always have.”
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“Your relationships, you know, my two daughters that I've made excuses over the years often be sitting in a rainforest filming and be a camera operator and maybe it's a bloke and he's just at his first children and he's away from home and he's upset. And I've said, yeah, but you've got to remember, you know, you're their first example. how to lead a life. You can see where this is going, and you know, you're going to come back with amazing stories and they're going to look and think, wow, well, if he can pursue his dreams and do that, I can pursue mine and you'll inspire them. Yeah, but they also just were quite likely to be around That's a fact Yeah, I've been able to provide well for, my girls, Izzy and Willow. I wish I'd been there more, of course I do. But if I'd been there more, we wouldn't have been where we were.”
2023-02-13 · The Diary of a CEO · Richard Hammond: The heartbreaking conversation that I am STILL avoiding! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“and I'm fifty three I'll go another go round in me yet. I'd like to have. I don't know when you're thinking about time off if you've ever got time off coming out, which I shouldn't imagine is very often and I know it isn't for me either but when it is I always think yeah God I'd love to just take a week and wake up every day and just go for a run and then maybe ride an old motorcycle and just really really revel in no I don't immediately I am hideously addicted to work. But that's hardly surprising, given that work has also been self verification and it's the reward that I probably shouldn't have had. So obviously I'm addicted to that. There's a cost about that, though. Yeah, yeah, yeah, if you're not careful.”
2023-02-13 · The Diary of a CEO · Richard Hammond: The heartbreaking conversation that I am STILL avoiding! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Things are going well and you're taking advantage of whatever luck comes your way. And I love building my businesses up because I love the fact that I'm conscious that's other people's jobs. This is their story I'm helping build. If they get working with me at 24. Even if they only work with me for five years, they'll remember that forever like I remember the first radio stations I worked at. This is their history. We're taking a part in writing, so I'm conscious of that. But at the same time, sometimes you just need someone to ruffle your hair and go, well done. That would be Asking to rough my hair just because Slightly.”
2023-02-13 · The Diary of a CEO · Richard Hammond: The heartbreaking conversation that I am STILL avoiding! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He liked to be more fair about life. That troubles me, I think, fairness, and I'm aware it's desperately unfair. But also yeah, as with a lot of some fairly Need be loved. desperately need to be reassured. And one of the dangers, I mean I should imagine you'll find this given, you know, you're young and enjoying a stellar coast. What our archetypal positions of power and authority, so it's very likely that the world would look at you and think, well, he's the last one that needs a bit of reassurance and a chuck on the shoulder and someone to say, oh, you're doing really well, well done, whereas actually you do. And I certainly find that that's something that I need. I need someone to acknowledge that.”
2023-02-13 · The Diary of a CEO · Richard Hammond: The heartbreaking conversation that I am STILL avoiding! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I was probably, I guess for that reason, as I've probably just revealed, it's probably quite low, isn't it? I'm very conscious of being very lucky, I think, to describe myself”
2023-02-13 · The Diary of a CEO · Richard Hammond: The heartbreaking conversation that I am STILL avoiding! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT