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Trevor Noah

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“And my mom, the therapist was like, oh, your son has ADHD or is hyperactive. And so you must stay away from these foods and must do this and you must do that. And you could give him treatment. My mom was like, well, we'll pray for him. Let's keep it moving. She didn't, she just didn't know, and she was like, No, this is not a thing. And then I now, as an adult, went, wait a minute, was that what that was?”
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“My friend got diagnosed first and Me about it changed his whole life. And then when he was describing some of the symptoms, I was like, well, that's weird. That sounds a lot like me. And we're very different personality-wise. And then I asked him, I said, I said, I don't understand. I've never noticed these things in you. And he was like, Yeah. And it hit home so much that it made me think I need to get diagnosed. I was like, let me go and see. I was like, it might not be. But let me go and find out. And then I remembered that when I was a kid, my school told my mom that I need to go for a psychiatric evaluation because when I was really young, the teachers complained. They said I was just all over the place. And my mom took me to a psychiatrist. And the psychiatrist diagnosed me with ADHD, but back then it was called hyperactivity”
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“Yeah. I'm angry at you. When was the last time a male friend looked at another male friend and said, you hurt me Hey man, that hurts. I know you think my haircut looked funny, but the way you set it in front of those other people, it hurts. Hey, the way you commented on my job and how you think it's the dumbest thing, and that hurt me. It hurt me because I love how you see me and I want to see myself being special in your life. And I felt insignificant. You hurt me, man Men are terrified of that. And so we'd rather say you pissed me off, punch you in the head, because that's acceptable in society.”
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“Start realizing that some people can make you feel when others can't. Two people can say the exact same sentence to you, only one can have an effect. Why? And that was and continues to be my journey and my joyous challenge. It's like learning how to feel not just think through everything. It's like really just feel. How do I feel? Oh, I'm tired. Oh, I'm resentful. Wow. Oh, I'm sad about that. Oh, I'm feeling a little hopeless. Wow, this feels a little melancholic. This is like really getting into those feelings”
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“So I've always been very good. Would be able to break down any situation to you as thoughts and analytics in a way. You go like, Trevor, what happened there? I wouldn't even be able to explain like an outburst. Well, what happened was clearly, over time this action had been repeated, and I didn't appreciate it, and so at that point I'd reached my breaking point and I reacted like this, you know, and I didn't realize until I went to therapy that I limited how much I was saying the feeling that I was having. I felt sad I felt mad. I felt, and then like you said about tracing it back, you then now, once you understand that feeling. And once you acknowledge it, you're then able to now. And then even ask yourself, why do I feel this thing? Why do I even feel?”
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“I think I understood them theoretically. My problem was never understanding them. My problem was never understanding them on an intellectual level. I think I've always been good at that, maybe even too good. The thing I've had to learn in therapy is the feeling part, not the thinking part.”
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“Hairdresses It's a natural thing. It's just, you know, I understand the stigma because there's a terrifying notion that comes with saying that you're broken. But I don't think it's about saying that we're broken. It's just about like understanding our cracks.”
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“That's very good. And in another culture, you say to somebody, oh, I go to somebody who spiritually understands how my brain works and they connect me with myself. They'd be like, that's very good. You do that. We all do it. Bartenders have been therapists for hundreds of years. People have gone and gotten drunk at a bar.”
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“Because we've given it this label people. I go to therapy. I realize if you just change that, take that sentence out and tell it to somebody and go, oh, yeah, no, there's a wonderful elder who I speak to and they give me advice. All of a sudden, like half the people who looked at you front would be like, that's very good. You must listen to your elders.”
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“Had the idea and the tradition of therapy long before it was formalized as a concept. In African cultures, you would speak to the elders. That's what you do. You go and you sit down with the elders, you tell them about your problems, you go there with your wife, you go there with your family, you go, any dispute, you go and talk about it there. And they give you their advice and it's based on generations of knowledge and it's based on a communal understanding of who you are and who they are. They've known you since you were a child even. It's a form of therapy. You know, and so I think...”
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“When you confide in your loved one, the two of you are in bed at the end of a long day and you're telling them about how stressful your job is and you're telling them about your doubts about staying in it or not. That's a form of therapy. And I think because we've given it this formalized title that's associated with like psychotic breaks on the most extreme things, we've now made it seem like it's reserved for people who are only like broken broken broken. But we forgotten how necessary it is. You go around the world and you see cultures, many of them, cultures of color.”
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“And I was like, that is the most British thing I've ever heard in my life But I get it. That's what a lot of people felt and think. They'd be like, why? What are you doing? I've come to realize that therapy as an idea holds a stigma, but the thing that it is doing is Is not just necessary, but it's actually welcomed by everybody. When you go in, you have a conversation with your friends and you commiserate about something that's going on in your life. It's a form of therapy.”
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“Yes, stigma is a well, everyone asked me, they said, Why? What's wrong? That's what everyone said to me Everyone said the same thing. What's wrong? One of my favorite ones. This wasn't a friend, but I didn't interview with a British newspaper. I forget which one it's called. Maybe it's the Telegraph. I'm not sure. It's slightly conservative. But anyway, we did this interview. I'll never forget this. And very British, very posh, you know, older woman. And she said to me, she's like, you've been quite outspoken about going to therapy. And do you still go to therapy? And I was like, yes. And she's like, why? What's wrong with you? And I said, do you not go to therapy? And she said, I don't need to. I was like, well, everyone can benefit from therapy. She's like, I respectfully disagree. I think the therapizing that we're currently experiencing in the world is completely unnecessary and sometimes you just need to take it and move on.”
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“A restriction that's stopping you from being yourself fully, physically, but mentally as well. Patterns, and as you said, games of snap where you don't even realize you're now just reacting. Things are happening and you're reacting to them. And I read a bunch of books. I was like, wow, this is fascinating. But I was like, none of it tells me about me per se. It's very broad. And so I decided, I was like, let me go to this place to try and learn about who I am. There's even a puzzle that I can learn a little bit more about.”
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“So I'll say it in two parts. So I went to therapy because I fell in love with the idea that I could learn more about myself and why I was the way I was from somebody who was skilled in understanding it. In the same way that I loved physical therapy. You know, I was like, wow, you can move your body differently. If you've ever had physical therapy, you know what I'm talking about. And if you haven't, you should go one day if you have anything wrong with you long before you consider surgery and things. You'll be shocked. You'll be shocked at how your neck hasn't been moving the way it's supposed to. You'll be shocked to realize that your back has been stuck for a while. You haven't been breathing. You'll find that your knees haven't been. No, but really. It's actually crazy. Realize how much over time you've settled into”
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“There's less predicting, there's less guessing, there's less pontificating. It's just like, this is what happened and this is what we know and that's it.”
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“You know what it did teach me? And this is something I tell everyone till this day give yourself a break from the news. Give yourself a break. We've been told and we've been conditioned to believe that we all need to keep up with the news. It's a lie. It's an illusion. You'll know what's happening. In fact, if you read the news once a week, I promise you, you'll be as informed as somebody who's reading it every single day. You know why? Because when you're reading it every day, you are caught in the cycle of it trying to discover what it doesn't know yet. Developing story, developing story, developing story. You'll be shocked at what you learn when you just read a story. That sort of had the time that it needed to breathe.”
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“I didn't just do the daily show when I was there. I would do the daily show when I was there and then I would leave and I would read the news and I'd keep up with the news and I'd try and keep up with all the news. And now I'm reading The Guardian and I'm reading BBC and then I'm reading like right-wing sites. I'm reading Breitbarts and I'm reading what's on conservative media and then I'm reading the telegraph and the economist. That's all I'm doing, consuming news, news, news, news, news, news, news, news. Get more news. Get more news. Bailey read a fiction book in years. It's like more news. I need information and news. Okay, economist analysis. What's happening? How do I put this together? What's happening? Al Jazeera. Okay, okay, think about that. What's going on in them times of India? What's happening? What's happening? What's happening? What's happening?”
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“That was a decision for me because I can't be in two places at once. And the daily show is all consuming. You cannot be sort of part-time in it as an idea. In fact, John and I joke now, but now he gets to do it weekly. And I think, if anything, he'd never go back to doing it daily because he knows how all consuming it can be.”
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“No, I was thinking to myself, wow, my people, all my friends that are South African were trapped in South Africa couldn't leave, couldn't come to me, I couldn't go to them, couldn't see my family, and I wasn't even big on that. It's not even like I was like, I've always got to go home to see my family. I just go when I go. But now I realize like, wow. This is just again, it's fleeting. And I had to ask myself, Trevor, what are you trying to achieve in your life? Where do you want it to go? Where do you want it to end? You know, what's more important to you? The ratings on the success of this show and this idea, or the ratings on the success of your friendships and your relationships. And I do think in life you have to let go of something old to grab onto something new.”
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“So, I guess it goes to the now sort of cliche, but still, I think, very apt phrase. You don't know what you've got till it's gone. Pandemic showed me all the things. I even talk about this for people. It showed me all the things that I didn't value, that I should have. Like when the pandemic hits, if we're honest, we didn't care that we couldn't go to the movies or we couldn't. It's not about the stuff. It's that we couldn't do it with our people. You couldn't see your friends. You couldn't be with other human beings. You couldn't be in a space together where people are cheering or singing or laughing or you couldn't be with people. And I don't know about you, but during the pandemic, I wasn't sitting there thinking to myself, oh, I work. Work is the thing I could do more of.”
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“Well, I will say this first and foremost, I was lucky I wasn't miserable. I didn't have like a, I hate this or I know. But I did want to turn and focus my life on something more. Yeah, like I want to spend more time with my loved ones. I wanted to spend more time with my people. I wanted to spend more time in South Africa. I wanted to spend more time learning other languages and traveling. I wanted to spend more time practicing comedy in other countries.”
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“I learned so many things at the Daily Show. I'm eternally grateful for them. But I also would like to learn more things Even in the years that I haven't been there, I've relearned and re-remembered that politics isn't a binary. It's not blue and red. That's an illusion. There aren't two ideas for every problem. That's fake. There are a multitude of ways to discuss. But if you stay in one place for long enough, then in a good way and in a bad way, you start to perceive that as reality. And so There were many things when it came to me leaving the daily show, but I just felt like, yeah, it's time”
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“Else secondary, right? So I would see my friends if I did not have work. I would travel with my friends if I did not have work. I would come to your wedding if I did not have work. Work was the thing, and everyone in my life knew this. They were like, oh yeah, work. You know, Trevor, if you're not working, can you? They'd almost say that to me. And on the other side of the pandemic I realized I can do the daily show. I looked up and I was like, wow, it's been eight years of me being at the daily show, seven years of me hosting one year of me being a contributor at times when John Stewart was there. I was like, you sort of can do this forever, but maybe what else can you do? Where else can you be? How can you spend your time? What would you like to do and how would you like to do it?”
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“I just paused and I, you know, we didn't, I didn't. I was making the show from home. And I was just going at it. And I'm really glad and I'm lucky that I got to do that because it sort of shielded me from some of the panic that came with the pandemic of what are you doing? What are you not doing? Where's life going? I was just like, I'm just doing my show. I'm just doing the show. I'm doing the show. I'm doing the show. Find a way to do it from home. Shoot it using iPhones. We didn't even have like cameras. We didn't have a crew. We didn't have anyone. It was just me, David, because he lived in the same building. And then the other David. And it was just three people, you know, physically making a thing that's supposed to take many, many, many people. You know? But here you are. You're doing this, but you're virtual and you're not in the same room as people. And you can't travel. And I was experiencing all of this. I couldn't go back to South Africa. I couldn't travel the world. And one of the big things I learned during the pandemic was I had made my life about work and I had made everything.”
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“I took for granted that the pandemic was a moment where many people were forced to be at home, but then the silver lining of that terrible period for many people was that they got to just pause for a moment. You know, many people will tell you the story of how they're like, man, during the pandemic.”
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“Yeah, but not in a negative way. This is more. Okay, so here's the thing. I think part of it comes from where I am from. And maybe you'll relate to this as somebody from the UK. In South Africa, TV shows end. We've never had a TV show except maybe like one soap opera, but we've never had TV shows that run for 10 seasons or 20 seasons. That's not a thing. It ends. And it doesn't end because it's bad. It ends. It just ends. I look at some of my favorite creators of things, you know, like I look at like Seinfeld. They were like, all right, it's done. The network was like, we can give you more. We can do more. They're like, yeah, but it's done. We just feel like it's done. Sometimes things can be done, and for me, I think there were multiple reasons. One was definitely the pandemic.”
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“They've ascended Everest more than the most celebrated Everest ascender. How are they not the ones? It's the equivalent of finding out that somebody ran carrying you sane bolts. But then we don't consider them the fastest man alive. And so I don't know. So I'm always cautious to think of that because it doesn't, like I say, it doesn't diminish what you've done. But man, you're not doing it alone. And to realize that, I think helps you to understand why it's important to have those people and why it then brings joy.”
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“I hear people all the time go like, I'm gonna put my head down and I'm gonna crush it. Okay, alone? Good luck. Good luck. And I think it creates an unrealistic expectation for people. People who studied together in school got better marks. There was just like a simple thing that we learned in our school when I was growing up. If you had a study partner, you just learned more.”
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“All these stories that we tell self made, oh I love that phrase, it's my favorite self made billionaire Oh really? Oh, it's an interesting choice of words. So you just did this all by yourself You made the thing by yourself with your hands, you made many more of them by yourself you drove the trucks you thought of all the ideas you put it in the stores you gave it to the people you took the money you invested it you grew it all by yourself all by yourself All the ideas were from your head all by yourself and then you got there all come on there's no such thing and I don't think it diminishes your achievement I just think it's important because it helps people understand That they need other people to get to where they're trying to get to. And maybe sometimes the reason you're not experiencing that is because you're trying to do it alone.”
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“Let's talk about them. No one's climbing Everest alone. No one's discovering the South Pole alone. No, you weren't. In fact, the person, the guy who first navigated the South Pole was led there by somebody. You know what I mean?”
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“You wouldn't be calling me here to have an interview with me because I wouldn't have done the things that I've done because I couldn't have done them alone because nobody could have done them alone. Nobody has done the things they've done alone. I've seen people tell these stories of climbing Mount Everest and my ascent and my all those Sherpas that went with you.”
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“Then I wouldn't be here with you. I will put all my money on that. I would not be here with you. I don't even think I would have taken the daily show. I wouldn't have done the daily show.”
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“Was somebody who was reminding you of that part of you that you always wish to be, which is somebody who can solve a puzzle, is somebody who enjoys what they're doing, is somebody who perseveres. But there they're looking at that side of me. And so I wasn't alone, it was me, it was David, it was Joseph Opio, guy who was randoms, now one of my best friends, a writer from Uganda who did the daily show, like a version of the daily show in Uganda. Like this weird world coming together. You meet us today, you'll think we've known each other our whole lives. But he was also, he was just there and he's like, I believe in us. He's like, I think we can do this. I think we can do it. I think we can do it.”
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“I think too many people forget the pats on the back and the hugs and the encouragements and the load liftings. They forget all of it. They see their suffering. They see their success. And then they go out and sell to the world how you got to persevere. Let me tell you what, in the darkest times, let me tell you what I did, Steve and I looked at myself in the mirror and I said, Trevor, you're going to do it, Trevor. You're going to be the man at the daily show. Yeah, but everyone forgets. They're like, no, your friend was there going like, do you want to go get some chicken wings? Let's go get some chicken wings. There was somebody accepting you despite your failure.”
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“I never think of it. That's why I wish more people would share their stories in that way. Because I think we live in a world. Where so many people sell an idea of perseverance as an individualistic pursuit? When it's”
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“It's funny you say that when you went home, you see, I wasn't alone, and that's probably the reason I survived. So David was with me every single day. He had moved from South Africa. We started like a comedy night together. That's how long we had been working together. So we would walk out of that building together on the hottest nights in New York and on the coldest nights in New York. And we would go back and we live together in the same apartment. And then we'd open like our notebooks and we'd be like, all right, what could we have done better? And we would just sit there and we'd be like, what could we have done better? And we'd get home at like eight or nine p.m. And then we'd work until midnight, go to bed, get back to the office at 7, 8 the next day, and do it all over again. And then we'd come home in the evening and be like, what were the wins? What could we have done better? And we would just do this over and over. But I was never alone.”
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“I didn't realize at the time that the depression that I was suffering from was ADHD depression. It wasn't like depression depression. And I've learned since that there's a difference. So I related to many ideas in and around depression. But I remember being confused because it's like, I'm not depressed perpetually, but I definitely experienced these moments. I didn't know that ADHD can do that to you. I didn't know that it can be like a byproduct of untreated ADHD and not knowing that you have ADHD. So that's just like a footnote there. But”
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“What people said about him, and he was one of those people who said to me, He's like, Hey man, I've been there and maybe people don't remember it because it was like pre-internet. But he was like, put your head down and this is part of the journey. And I leaned on him. I leaned on the other people. And it was just like, you know, just like a slow, you know, boring slog filled with many funny and sad moments. And then one day it seems obvious to people from the outside.”
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“So, when John was in, they were like, this guy needs to leave. And then when John was leaving, they were like, Oh, this guy needs to stay. And he looked at me and he said to me, please understand that to me, he said to many people, I have always been obvious, but he said, I know my road and I wasn't. And he wasn't. You know, when John took over the show, Craig Kilbourne had been the previous host, people thought John couldn't do it. If you said that today, people would burn you at a stake. Be like, are you crazy? What do you mean John Stewart can't do it?”
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“And it was like, why Jon Stewart needs to leave the Daily Show? It's over for him. He's the worst of America. He's not good for this country. There's this whole article just like slamming him. And he's like, you see? And I was like, oh yeah, I guess. He's like, no, no, no. You're not looking at the right thing. And he's like, look who wrote it. And it was the same journalist.”
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“Article about the 10 ways that John Stewart is the heart of American. He cannot leave. And John showed me that. And he's like, huh? And John's like, doesn't take himself seriously at all. So John was like, huh? And I was like, yeah. And he's like, hon? And I'm like, yeah, congrats. You crushed it. He's like, no, no, I crushed it. I'm important to America. And we laughed. And then he goes, hold on now. And he types something in. And then he pulls up an article. from like years ago years and years and years ago but was like not wait it wasn't that far it was like it was like three years prior two years prior so he was like at his prime but it was like two three years before that”
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“And I stayed, and now everything seems obvious, but that building was full of people who told me to just stay. That building was full of people who were like, I know. One of them was John Stewart. Like, I'll never forget. Like, John, one of the best things he ever did for me was it's almost like he predicted this. That's why I call him Yoda. I call him my Jewish Yoda, you know, because we have this relationship where it's like, I came into this order where I was learning this new thing called the Force and being a Jedi. It seemed impossible and he was this ordained figure in a way. But I remember he called me into his office one day and he said to me, he said, I want to show you something. And he showed me an article that someone had written about him leaving the show. Like he was, you know, because this was just before he left. And the article was like, why John Stewart cannot leave the show and why American needs him and why John Stewart has to, and it was just this effuse.”
2024-10-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Trevor Noah: My Depression Was Linked To ADHD! Why I Left The Daily Show! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Out here. And he's like, I like the lunch here You can just, what are you talking about? And he said it to me in such a matter of effect way. And I remember being stunned and I looked at him and he said, how do he say to me again? I don't know the exact words, but the sentiment was basically he said, He said, These people don't like you, right? And I was like, Yeah, clearly. And he said, So if you leave, are they going to like you? I was like, no. Then he's like, so if leaving won't make them like you and staying won't make them like you, why not just stay? That because I like working with you, so just stay. And that was just like one of those many moments where you talk about millimeters. Was just him saying to me, just stay, just stay.”
2024-10-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Trevor Noah: My Depression Was Linked To ADHD! Why I Left The Daily Show! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, no, but you're right. But I think that's important. I think it's important Oh no, man. No, it was a mission. Yeah, and there were many days. Again, I mean, I'm just so grateful and I'm so lucky. There were days where I remember there was one day we made a joke on the show. Not even on the show, no, someone on the team had tweeted something on the show account, and now there were like articles written about it and they were like, this is why Trevor Noah shouldn't be the, I wasn't even the person who tweeted. It's the show accountant. But I'm not going to come on and be like, that's not me. We're a team, whatever. My name is on the show. And I remember turning to one of the writers, Dana Myra, who's still the head writer at the show. And I said to Dan, I was like, man, I think I should just quit. I was like, it'll just be easier for all of you because you guys were having a great time. I come along. I've made your lives terrible. It's like, I should just quit. I should just go, you know. And then I'll never forget Dan. He just looked at me and he's very dry, one of the funniest human beings you'll ever meet. Really dry in his delivery.”
2024-10-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Trevor Noah: My Depression Was Linked To ADHD! Why I Left The Daily Show! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And even thinking of it makes me happy. I think about the terrible times we had together in that building, you know, like reviewers hated us and people calling for the show to be cancelled. And we were just like they're commiserating, trying our best and doing our best. And now when people see it as a successor, they go like, oh, you won the Emmys. And it was this and it was successful and then the digital footprint of the show changed everything and all of a sudden these billions of impressions and whatnot. That came afterwards and now that's easy to see as an end product. But when we were in the trenches, there was none of that.”
2024-10-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Trevor Noah: My Depression Was Linked To ADHD! Why I Left The Daily Show! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But it was really hard. And I'm lucky that I had the people I had making the show with me because They really, really, really taught me, or I learned from the experience that You genuinely cannot choose to What's going to happen to you? But you almost definitely can choose who you're going to handle it with. And that is the only thing that I now do in my life. And it determines everything. I will take a shit job if I'm going to work with great people because a great job with the worst people is not going to feel great on the other side of it.”
2024-10-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Trevor Noah: My Depression Was Linked To ADHD! Why I Left The Daily Show! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, yeah, but I mean, that was extreme, and you get that because the daily show is involved in politics, you know, or we comment on politics rather. And when we do that, man, you know, people would just be like, go back to where you came from, how dare you and you're coming here and N-word this and blah, blah, and blah, blah, blah. Again, my gift and my curse was that I came from South Africa. So I know like top quality racism. So, you know. Like when I came to America, and like people were saying these things to me, I was like, Oh, oh, I was like, okay, this is okay, this is interesting.”
2024-10-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Trevor Noah: My Depression Was Linked To ADHD! Why I Left The Daily Show! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would sit there and be like, wow, you really hate me. I've done nothing to you but you hate me. But then I realized, no, you hate the idea of me and you hate what I've done to your world. I'm the representative, I'm the idea of how your world has changed. Here's this idea that you've loved John Stewart. He's now gone, and I am the reason he's gone, even though that's not the case. I am the reason he's gone. And because I'm the reason he's gone, you are now angry.”
2024-10-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Trevor Noah: My Depression Was Linked To ADHD! Why I Left The Daily Show! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, and that I love if there's one thing I love, it's understanding or trying to understand human beings because I think we're very complicated, but we're also simple at the same time. And that was a wonderful moment for me to learn, even people, because these people who are hating me, by the way, it's not like these were conservatives or anything. It was like liberal people who are, you know. Some of the things they were saying to me in emails or like online Yeah, oh, yeah, people will find ways. But you,”
2024-10-17 · The Diary of a CEO · Trevor Noah: My Depression Was Linked To ADHD! Why I Left The Daily Show! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT