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Trevor Noah

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“Oh, I wouldn't know the answer to that question. Because the strange thing, again, I think about the mind is that Things that affect us. Sometimes may not be the things that are as obvious to us as we may think. You can get into a car accident and experience an acute trauma that you know how this affects you and you'll be shocked that many of the other things you're dealing with in your life where you're struggling aren't actually from that car accident, they're from like the minute moments in your life where somebody rejected you. You know, you weren't chosen to play on a team as a kid. You failed a test. You were bullied. And I don't say this dismissively. I say it cautiously. I go like, oh, I would be careful to put all of it on it on that moment because in a weird way, that moment was contained. It came with many other instances.”
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“I think in moments, yes, I think I have. I think the levels of my forgiveness won't reach my moms because she was in love with him, you know? Me, this was still a person who came into my life. He's not my biological father. So I think I don't think I've ever reached the level of pure like, I forgive you, but I do understand. I think I understand a lot of I think I feel sorry for him. I think I. I've learned to come to terms with it, but like pure forgiveness, I'd be lying to you if I'm like, yeah, forgiven. I'm like, no, I think so sometimes. And then other times I go like, no, actually, actually I don't.”
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“And I'm glad my mom did that because in the years since I've spent more time reading about domestic abuse and learning about domestic abuse and speaking to experts about it. Unfortunately, there's a reason, there's a vicious cycle. A lot of young boys who grow up in homes where their moms are abused grow up to then become abusers themselves, even though they hated the very idea of what they were experiencing. And so to your point, I think it's because of that now unreleased and unrealized anger. They didn't get to express when they were children because they weren't safe. And then now at some point it comes out of them. And so I genuinely had to deal with that. I had to even accept the idea that I was as angry as I was, angry and helpless, which is a terrible combination for a human being to experience.”
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“Than crying it out and then being angry again and then being scared and then just going through waves and waves and waves of that. And so that was a lot of my time in therapy and a lot of my time having conversations with my mom. And my mom would always say to me, she'd be like, over time, you learn to forgive. And I was like, I don't think I could ever forgive. And she was like, yeah, she's like, but, you know, forgiving doesn't mean forgetting. It means letting go of the thing that the person is holding of you as opposed to, you know, you, it's not you letting them into your life. It's just going like, yeah, that happened. I feel for them. I understand many of the things that made them do what they did. And then trying to let go of that anger that's like burning inside you, that rage.”
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“But everything around it is charisma and charm and jokes and I laughed with this man most of my life. You know, I had some of my favorite experiences with him as a human being. When he was wonderful, he was the most wonderful human being you'd ever meet. And it took me a while to understand how to consolidate those ideas, how to resolve the fact that somebody who you love, someone who treated you with respect and joy in some moments was also the person who brought you the most pain. Angle was like a big one for me. I thought everything, anger at myself, anger at my mom for staying to the point that that could happen, anger at him, anger at the system for not protecting, anger just everywhere. And then anger dipping into pain and anguish.”
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“And the one thing that I think confuses people sometimes when it comes to domestic abuse is that we think of it as a binary. So people go like, how can these bad men live these lives? But we don't realize that. Oftentimes the moment of bad is the explosion.”
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“Oh geez, yeah, that's been a tough one for me because I experienced every emotion. I talk about it in my book I have experienced every emotion because I mean Fear was the first one. The idea that this person could take away the life of someone who arguably I loved the most. Then like rage, helplessness, even like shame, feeling like I didn't protect her because I knew from the beginning. Literally, I writes about this in the book. My grandmother would tell us stories of how, because she had the best memory in the family, she would tell us stories of how when I was young, when my mom first met my stepdad, I was saying to the family, I was like, this guy's great and everything, but I don't think this is a good idea. I don't think he's a good man. I don't think we should trust him. I was saying this as a child.”
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“Yeah, everything changes. I probably don't move to America. I don't explore the world in the same way. I take on a whole different role in my life. Everything changes.”
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“You see it in the US all the time, unfortunately. You'll see man kills wife or wife and And the case just isn't treated with the same, it's always seen as like a, oh, something went wrong in a tragic love affair. It's always labeled like that. I think that's affected our ability in society to I think to treat it the way we should”
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“So in South Africa, I don't think it's unique to South Africa as well. When I've traveled to other African countries, I've learned this is unfortunately true. The crime that a man commits against his wife or his partner isn't given the same validity as if it were committed against a stranger. Know the court system doesn't treat it the same. The law is somehow not applied with the same level of ferocity as if it were somebody else. And so, in this instance, they basically ruled something to the effect of like, oh, it was his first offense. And, you know, would he repeat it or not? But it just, it's a failing of the justice system that has meant that many women in South Africa and other parts of the world don't feel like justice gets served. You see it time and time again.”
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“The spinal cord all the way through. And then hit her cheekbone, which then deflected the bullet and then went out of her nose. So it cut off a little piece of her nose, but the exit wound wasn't as bad as it could have been. And yeah. And the doctors couldn't do anything. So there was no brain surgery. There was no opening of it. It was just stopping bleeding, closing wounds and now praying. And the doctor was the one who said miracle, and he said, I hate this word because I'm a man of science and I'm a doctor. He said, but this was a miracle. He said this shouldn't have happened like this. And then my mom was like, yeah, of course, of course it's a miracle. And of course this is how it was going to happen. She's like, you know, my Lord protects me.”
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“Yeah, that's where we have to go miracle. And that's where we still joke till this day because my mom's very religious. I grew up very religious but very skeptical of religion or anything really. And I was taught to question, ironically, by my mother. My mother taught me to question. She still questions things. She doesn't like follow blindly. So I think I... I was in this position, and I think many of us were aware. I'm seeing what I think is the end. The doctors are saying to me, we're going to try what we can, but it looks terrible. And then we find out that the bullet entered the back of her skull, went through her head and then exited. It basically missed the bottom of the brain. Went past the”
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“Yeah, and that curse ended up being one of my greatest gifts Because from that day onwards, I have never seen my mother the same way. You know, I've never... Every time I look at her, I'm grateful that she exists. Every time I hold her, like I hold her like it's the last time she even pushes me off sometimes. I hug her hard, hug her hard and I hug her for long. And I think this is extended to other people in my world, to be honest with you, is I'm very cognizant of the fact that this thing is ephemeral. I don't know when it'll disappear. So it has made me more appreciative of that. I don't assume, you know, I hope and I think there's a possibility that we will meet again. But as they say in Arabic, inshallah, God willing. I don't know.”
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“Grieve the loss of my mother, but then she didn't die. But I completely grieved her as if she was gone. Like I cried because she was gone. I didn't cry because she was hurt. I was like, it's over. It's finished. Every thought ran through my head. I was like, wow, I'm raising my brothers now. I was like, okay, I guess now I'm the head of the household. It's amazing. Like my brain's spun in every day. I was already now thinking 10 years ahead. I was like, oh man, okay, where are we living? What are we doing? How's this going to work? You know, where's my little brother and what do I tell him and how do I, you know”
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“I mean, find out, it's such a Such a drawn out feeling and moment because Time is weird in that it stands still when you're experiencing the worst of it and it flies when it's the best of it. And so that moment, even when you say the word, you do find out or go like, no, what felt like forever was us waiting for the inevitable news that my mom, our mom was dead. That seemed like the conclusion. I mean, I've watched movies. You've watched movies. Someone gets shot in the head and it's over, you know? So that was a, yeah, that was me grieving. It's a very strange experience to have because... I grieved somebody.”
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“Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, this is all happening in the chaos and the panic. I don't remember if I called him or if he called. I don't remember how it happened.”
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“No, no I think my mother's gift and curse has always been the fact that her religion has powered her through. And if you know somebody who's very religious, you'll know that their connection with God and their purpose pushes them through obstacles that most human beings would never be able to survive, never, never, never. So there was never despair on the other side that I could feel from my mom. I never felt like I had to cheer her up. The house definitely descended into a doom and you could feel there was a palpable sense of tension post what had happened.”
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“Yeah, you know, like Chris Pratt with those raptors in Jurassic Park, you just find a way to snap and, you know Pull attention Find ways to It sounds ridiculous, but literally it was me just thinking of ways, you know, do you close a door that then has to be open that then alerts more people to the presence of somebody? Or do you turn the TV up in this way? Or do you say something to him so that he, you know, his mood might shift in a certain way? Do you, you know? All of these things I was thinking of. And this is me thinking of these things at the age of let's say nine, ten, eleven, twelve, you know, all the way through.”
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“Of the outcomes, and it may not be the outcome. And I then trust that they can also resolve things themselves. And that's probably one of the hardest things is as a child. As you said, you're not understanding how your father's a prisoner on this chair getting berated, and I, as a child am going, I don't understand why my mother doesn't understand the danger. Why doesn't she leave? And why is she even getting into a conversation with this man? He's not sober. Why is this happening? Many children experience this. And then go, this person cannot protect themselves. So I have to do it for them.”
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“Yeah, you do. You definitely do. I think emotions, you don't really have a choice about your emotions most of the time, but you do choose how you react or how it affects you. And so what I'll try and do is genuinely, sometimes I'll be, even in a conversation, I practice it when it's low stakes. I'll be with friends and I can feel the conversation getting heated and I can feel someone's going to say something that'll hurt somebody else. And then what I'll practice doing is just keeping quiet and breathing. Whereas what I used to do was I would jump in immediately. I would interrupt. I'd interrupt, you know, and I'd be like, oh, did you guys see the and I would diffuse and I'd find a way. And I was very good at it. I still am. But now I'll just breathe and I'll be like, well, let's see where this goes. I know my friends are not going to hit each other, but I now breathe and go like, it's not my job to protect everybody. And so I just try and breathe through the feeling and see how it turns out. Sometimes I even do it as a game to see if I am right because sometimes you're predicting what one.”
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“What happens in a household of domestic abuse is a child goes, Oh, my parent does not know when danger is impending. And so I then need to be on alert for them. Because if they don't know, then I need to be alert. And if I'm alert, I can keep everybody safe. And so you develop that acute sense. You develop, you know, your nervous system doesn't rest. I would sit in a room and I would feel the people. And I still have that. I have to like, I now have to practice letting that go. And so... Part of it is probably why I'm a good comedian, but it's like learning when I want to use it and when I don't. So learning when to ignore it.”
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“So the curse that comes with it is. I exist in a space where I am too aware of how other people feel And as I've come to understand what happens to a lot of children who are in abusive households is they develop their hypersensitivity as a tool to protect the parent because they start, in the same way you were saying with your dad, why is he just sitting here?”
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“Know, I would know by the sounds of the footsteps whether or not my stepfather was sober or drunk. By his footsteps, I knew by the way he would close or open a door, I would know whether to be on edge or not. And so When I got that call, everything in me let go. Like it was one of the most still is, it's like a painful memory, you know, is like, The first thought I had was damn, it happened I thought it would, but not like this, but it happened.”
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“I mean, my friends know till this day I'll be the kind of person I'll tell you when we should leave a party before a fight breaks out. I'm never around for the fight because I can feel it. I can feel energy. I can feel, and not like woo-woo. Like, no, I just start noticing people are not having as much fun as they were 20 minutes ago. And a few of the guys are stepping on each other and the ratio in the room has gotten bad and the music's not connecting with people. I'll be like, ah, it's time to leave. You know, and I think that from what I've understood in therapy and working with people who do the research around this is children start to develop an acute sense. It's like a spidey sense. Know you hear the sound of a car and you know which car is bringing danger to the house.”
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“What went through my head was I knew exactly who did it. I knew what had happened. One of the worst Things that comes with growing up in a house of domestic abuse and a house where you're dealing with an alcoholic is Become hypersensitive and you become really good. At predicting things.”
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“When this happened Me think that no, I was closer to my 30s because my younger brother was old enough ish to drive but shouldn't have been able to drive. So maybe he was like 14. So yeah, maybe I'm like 24 at the time somewhere there.”
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“Problem in South Africa till this day. I mean, this is a problem in many countries around the world. I was in, where was I recently? I was in Amsterdam recently and I saw they had this huge campaign around femicide and gender-based violence. And it's a problem all over the world where people sort of don't take it seriously. You know, they call it a crime of passion. A woman goes to the police and says, you know, my husband beat me. And they go like, oh, but what did you do? This is between you and your husband. Go home, sort it out, figure the whole thing out. And I think that definitely left me as a child, even though I was a child, looking at the world going like, oh, wow, okay. So the world thinks this is normal, then, you know, then that means the world won't keep me safe either. Does that make sense?”
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“But in a similar way, I think in a way that sort of informed my avoidance, it was more me realizing I don't have an opportunity, or I'll never have an opportunity to hurt you if I don't fully give to you. You know what I mean? So it was a, that's why I say we can be in the same boat, but realize we have different tickets that brought us here. The outcome is the same, but we sort of end up in the same place. And so in my world, I'm without a doubt think that seeing a relationship where somebody was hurt because they allowed somebody into their lives affected my ability to allow people into my lives because I was like, oh, if that happens to me, then what happens? Are you a prisoner? Are you subject and you grow up in a world where people just don't seem to take it seriously?”
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“No, that's interesting. You see, yeah, on my side, it was the other way around. I think Know, I think when I looked at how I saw relationships and love in that way, it was like I never saw it as like a prison.”
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“I'm always fascinated by that, like by how I can connect with somebody where in their house It was more about like fighting and bickering, and people saying things to each other and shouting. And I didn't grow up in that kind of house. But then I've met people who did, and we seem to be kindred spirits because we've both experienced fundamentally an unsafe household, the feeling of an unsafe household. And I think that's something that many adults are still dealing with or not dealing with. But as a child, I don't think we're sitting there with a little notepad going, well, nothing physical happened here. And that was only words. And this was because of stress. And no, we just experiencing an unsafe environment.”
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“So, you see, like my curiosity, my question to you then is when you go, you didn't experience it, I go, but what did you experience? And this is the weird thing about the mind, right? I find whenever I speak to brilliant thinkers and the Therapists and psychologists and all these people, what I find fascinating is how sometimes your traumas or your perception of your traumas is directly proportional to what you lived in your life. So in a weird way, you might have the exact same experience that I have, it's just that mine might have been more physical. Does that make sense?”
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“When you're a child, your parents are the most powerful beings you know. In your head, no one is more powerful than them. And if you ever have the terrible fortune of seeing your parents, most times your mother being in a position where she's being violently harmed, I mean... It rocks your fundamental understanding of what the world is. For me, I mean, that's something I still deal with in therapy today because I'm always trying to chip away and trying to understand what is still on me and what is calloused that I don't wish to be and then what is too soft or what is, like I'm always, I'm always trying to understand it because I don't think there's one concrete answer for what the experience does to you.”
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“It's tough. It's tough to process because I don't even think I fully know what it means at this age. You know, like love. Violence, domestic abuse, these are things that I don't think anyone fully comprehends, even when I talk to like therapists about it. It's always like a theoretical understanding. It's not a fact. It's like we think that this and this could be because and this could cause and therefore that could be, you know, and we have brilliant minds who think on what this does and how it creates and, you know. But Matt, I will never take for granted what it was like for myself and for any other kid who's experienced it growing up in a home where there's domestic violence. It's one of the worst things you experience because You live in a world where your parents are like the president in a weird way”
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“Then I think there was a seminal moment in their lives where she became very religious and my dad was not at all. And my mom was like, well, I'm going down a religious path. And so this is my new life, you know?”
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“Yeah. She eventually met. She was never married to my dad. Okay. They couldn't get married because of the laws. And then I think afterwards, my mom was just like, well, we are where we are.”
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“In my latter years, because I was more aware of them. But as a child, I'm just having a good time, I'm spending time with my mom. I'm never not seeing her, and if I'm not with her, I'm with my grandmother, which is again normal, you know, in many cultures all over the world. But there was never a moment where I'm separated. She was brilliant to figure out how to do that. And so that's why I say I don't disagree with what you're saying, but I think everything affects us and everything can be thought to affect us negatively and positively. And I've yet to meet a human being who's had a perfect existence. So I'm very careful to then sort of like point to everything as the reason for, because everything is already the reason for, which does that make sense?”
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“And so when I think of how we shape realities, I had no other reality to compare it to. So it's not like I was seeing other kids thinking, oh, wow, I'm left out. There were many other kids. You know, even when I talk about my story, I always say to people, don't think of this as a unique and special story. It's just that I happen to be in a place where people talk to me about it. But I am but one story of many others. I knew many kids whose dads had been killed by the police or had been arrested by their apartheid police or had left into exile, and so they couldn't be with their dads for other reasons. So in a weird way, I used to think I was like the lucky kid. I knew my dad. My dad loved me and I would see this man. And it was so like the feeling of that, I think at that age maybe wasn't apparent for me. I'm sure I've been more affected by things that happen.”
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“I wouldn't disagree with that. I'm sure his instance was probably harder if he remembers it and then B is separated from his mother. I'm not an expert in the field, but I think your mom holds a very different place in your life as a child. I think we're wired that way. And then I was lucky in that I was seeing my dad. Does that make sense? So being in public with a parent is not really something of consequence if there isn't that in the world, you know?”
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“No, no. My mom. So when I go out in public with my mom, she would, I don't even know where she came up with this, but she would act like she was supposed to be with me, but not related to me. So she would dress up as everyone has different words for these in different countries, but like nanny made domestic worker. And she would just act like she's my caretaker. So it would look like my parents, I guess, have hired her to look after me. And so that's how she moved seamlessly with me in the streets because nobody would suspect it. Couldn't be with my father at all in public. That was just out of the question.”
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“Your culture didn't matter. All that mattered was your shade. And that was instrumental in keeping people, keeping a majority as broken up as possible to ensure that they were oppressing many minorities as opposed to one majority of people. So it's really complicated. I mean, and you know, you've read up on it, but it's an infinitely complex system around a ridiculous idea.”
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“Technically speaking, my mother, my father, and myself weren't allowed to live in the same area. That's how granular the system was. So I was considered superior to my mother, and then my father was considered superior to me. And so when I was really young, for instance, I'm still an indoor kid. And I think a lot of that is because when I was young, when I was with my grandmother, for instance, and my mom was working, my grand would lock me in the house. I couldn't go outside and play with the other kids. I would escape now and again. She'd always tell me stories about how I would like dig a hole under the gate to go and play with other kids in the street. But she was terrified. And I thought it was just because she was strict and she loved me, but it was because she was scared the police were going to take me away if they found me running around in Soetzo, which was a township where only black people were supposed to be. And so in the apartheid system, this skin color wasn't considered black.”
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“The architects of apartheid explored what the Australians did with the Aboriginal people. They explored what the Dutch did. That's where the word apartheid comes from. They looked at what the Germans did, you know, during the rule of the Nazis in Germany, like Nazi Germany. They looked at every type of racism, including in the US. It's crazy how much effort they put into doing such a terrible thing. I often joke with my friends and I go, if they put that amount of effort into making a great country, South Africa probably would have been like one of the most powerful countries in the world by now. Because there was a lot of efforts. And it's a genius system, but just in the wrong direction. So what that meant for me was I could be born by my mother. I could be the seed of my father, but I couldn't live with him. We couldn't live with him. We couldn't live together. He couldn't live in our areas.”
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“So I was lucky. I was lucky in that I think at least on the surface I didn't feel it. Because one of the most important things I've learned from my upbringing is a child's reality for the most part is defined and created by their parents or their caregivers. So I didn't know that my world was strange. I didn't know that my mother wasn't legally allowed to have me. To understand the apartheid system, I always try and break it down for people. You know, people think of like racism and they go like, oh, okay, it's racism. And I'm like, no, it's a much more insidious system that was designed to oppress people based on the color of their skin. So where America just said, there's black and white. And if you had like one drop of blood that was black, you were black and it was a very simplistic system. The apartheid system was a culmination of all of the worst ideas from around the world in and around race.”
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
“Starting points, but then there was a series of lucky breaks. You know, the dominoes, as you say. There was a series of lucky breaks. So one of those was apartheid ends. So, apartheid ends when I'm six years old. And I always think to myself about how much that. Changes my entire life. Because if apartheid, let's say apartheid went for 10 more years, then now I'm sixteen and I haven't been able to go to the schools that I went to because only white kids were allowed to go to them and children of color, black children in South Africa were restricted from going to the same schools and weren't allowed to live in certain areas. And your whole life was defined by the color of your skin. And so that becomes like one of the first dominoes that I didn't have anything to do with that changes my life.”
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 mean, you know, first of all, I was born and raised in South Africa, right? I was born in 1984, so that was six years before apartheid ended, born to a black mother and a white father at a time when it was illegal in the country. And it was strangely unique. I guess because it was illegal, you know. So I grew up in a world where I didn't see many people like me who had my background. I saw some people who looked similar to me, but they had a completely different background. You know, South Africa's racial dynamics are very complicated and sometimes throw people off, especially like internationally. But yeah, I think that's one of the beginning of me. And then I think I look at these ingredients, which aren't necessarily the best in choosing your...”
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
“A product of the people that we then come into contact with. So I think of most people sort of like a sponge cake, like most cakes are very basic, most of them. And then what really makes them special is what the baker does to them afterwards. But the fundamental cake is pretty much the same. And I think people are like that, yeah, there's certain things, you know, like the color of our skin and tone of voice and all of that. But then I think it's everyone we come into contact with that gives us the icing, that gives us the shape, that gives us the dynamic texture that makes us who we are. And so I strangely enough, I feel like it's all of these people that I was lucky enough or unlucky enough to bump into that gave me a little bit of that texture and shape. And I think that's the same for everyone, you know. That's probably why I'm so conscious of choosing my friends because I think...”
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
“saw my mother, South African, and hussa woman, my father Swiss from Switzerland but was living in South Africa. So those are the parental ingredients. You know, my grandmother, I think, is a key ingredient because I spent a lot of time with hers as a young child. My grandfather was a crazy, funny man, bipolar, but we didn't know at the time. I think we knew towards the end of his life, but it made him wildly entertaining Yeah, it's an interesting and tough one because I often think As much as we're baked to what you're saying. Think that we're baked, but then we are very much”
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
“That's a tough one because I feel like my perception of what the most important things are may not be the most important things. I could say it would be my sense of humor, and then it might be where the sense of humor comes from, which might be my family or my country. It might be which schools I went to, it might be where I've lived or where I've traveled to. It's one of those, you know, if you ever try to break down food or something that you consume and you go like, what is the most important ingredient? What are the ingredients that really make it what it is? It's like, is it the crunch? Is it the acid? Is it the salt? Is it the fat? What is it? I don't know. I genuinely don't know. If I knew, then I would be able to either create more of me or maybe like, you know, figure out which parts I want to tweak. But I honestly don't know the answer to that question.”
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 had made my life about work and I had made everything else secondary. And to be honest with you, a lot of people are doing this. We've neglected connection. And I think we're experiencing a generation of men in particular who are not just isolated but not practiced in the arts of connecting. And it's affecting society now.”
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
“It was absolutely terrible. People would just be like, go back to where you came from, Death Threat. It was really hard, but I persevered. And I would get home at 9 p.m., work until midnight. Get back to the office at 7 the next day and doodle over it all over again.”
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