Do what's easy for you that others find hard to make easy money. There's no substitute to the time put in. You can have/do anything but not everything, choose your status game. Do less better, yourself. Have a process/activity-driven ambition rather than an output-driven ambition. What pain can you endure in life? Everything is a marshmallow test, sacrifice now for latter, your today for your tomorrow. What do you want to feel, not have? Envy tells you what you want. Only you can ruin your life, you control it. Comedy sits between public and private conversations. Power lies in the topic you can't talk about. People want to feel connected. We don't exist on our own, it's a pleasing illusion, but we're part of a community. "The future is here but not evenly distributed" means we solved almost all problems but locally: Portugal legalized drugs and with the money earned as well as not spent fighting it, they pay for rehab and education. Some problems don't get solved through laws but science. The Beginning of Infinity asks the question: what if we're the first 100B humans and there are trillions more to come? People are important temporally and spatially. Cutting back to save the planet isn't the solution, no one wants to do it. Be grateful, you don't live in North Korea or Venezuela. You are your true self when nobody's watching. Character is knowing yourself, reputation is what others think you are. It's easy to be cynical and everyone has an agency as there are problems everywhere. Politics and sports can't be your whole life, these guys don't care about you. What do we really want for the world? Success isn't always due to talent or work, it's both. We're all lucky to be there. Accept what you've got for your journey. Avoid being surrounded by people who don't provide value. Things that matter like peace of mind are feelings hardly measurable compared to money that's less important. What truly matters isn't measurable. Play your agency at your level: self, family, friends, country, etc. Being likable is important. If your past trauma gave you strengths you're now proud of, thank your traumatizers. Forgive over resent. The 3 humiliations of humanity: Copernicus (we're not the center of the universe), Darwin (we descend for animals), Freud (our self-conscious runs the show). Think about what's useful rather than what's correct. The belief gives the will and the ability. If you're in a bad mood all the time, you're an asshole. Anxiety is a gift, it makes your mind racing all the time and ensures you always have something to do, solving the future ahead of time. Don't go somewhere to feel happiness there, feel happy before you go. Happiness doesn't live down the road, money won't stop depression. People only care about the trajectory/progression. Having thing isn't fun, getting them is. Testosterone is about performance and taking risks, which we need to do more. Go with what you've got or you won't go at all. Narcissists have the disease but you have the symptoms. Being cancelled is fine as long as you still know who you are. Cancellation is free publicity. We can't forgive what we can't punish. Rightsize everything. Internet is de-humanizing. Charisma is you come to me, charm is I come to you. If you wear the mask long enough, the mask becomes the face. Persona can't receive love, only praise. We don't love Russel Crow, we love Maximus Decimus. Songs where about god pre-1900, now they're about love. You can't beat your environment. Reinventing yourself is good but it's harder to do now with social media that can drag you back. Where not afraid of failure, we're afraid of the judgement of others on our failure. Saying that you'll do great things but not succeeding is better than not saying nor doing. Most things are reversible so take the risk. Your achievement isn't the outcome, it's the skillset you develop along the way. Everyday is special, be alive rather than not dead yet. Design your life so that Mondays are awesome. Who would you like to have the whole life of, everything included? Every man has got two lives, and his second begins when he realizes he only got one. Tasks without end make you happy, ended tasks don't. What do you want to want? Emotions as ambitions. There is nothing you can buy you won't care about in 5 years. Difficulty to get doesn't mean valuable. Discomfort is valuable. Worthwhile means difficult but difficult doesn't mean worthwhile. If you can't be happy over a coffee, you can't be happy over a yacht. It is hard to truly learn from other's mistakes without wanting to learn by yourself. The brain is fully finished at 25, hence the quarter-life man'o-pause. People mistake "I don't like that" with "That shouldn't be allowed", hence the loss of free speech. We're over-stimulated, take time. To change habits, make the thing you want more attractive than the thing you do. We think things can never get better, from cars to health, but so have our ancestors. The show starts because it's time, not because you're ready. Doesn't matter if your belief is the truth as long as it's good. Having kids means your heart lives outside of your body and the stakes raise. Happiness is expectations exceeded. Dogs are fur babies and help curing depression. If you feel bad, try helping others. Think like an athlete for you life. Flow states are magical times. You need a low stakes fun activity with flow state, a low stake flow state hobby. YouTube is the biggest TV in the world.
Jimmy Carr