Chris Duffy

And it ends up not being bad at all.

It ends up being fun.

Sure.

It's a great question.

I mean, my honest answer is that I think so much of who I am is because of doing improv and comedy.

And I started doing it when I was young.

So I wasn't like a fully formed person yet.

You know, I was like in college and still figuring out who I was.

So it's hard for me to say like, this is who I was before, because I think the formation of who I am, it's kind of tied to it.

But I think the biggest thing was realizing that the best thing I could do if I wanted to look good

was to not make myself look good but to make the people that i was there with look good like that that was the secret trick is you want everyone to enjoy the show don't make it so you're the best person in the show make it so the other person on stage is the best person in the show and then they're trying to do the same thing and through that you all look great i think that was a really big lesson because i think that's counterintuitive to how i'm wired where i would like to be

regarded as the best person in the show.

You know, I'm like, but what if I did this?

And then realizing that that actually was always the way to backfire and make yourself look bad is to, you know, try and steal the joke rather than give the joke away.

And I mean, not like steal the joke, like steal like a written joke, but like steal the punchline, steal the laugh rather than like give the laugh to your partner.

Kind of across the board, any successful creative person I've talked to or know

We'll tell you that one of the biggest differences between like when they actually became successful and before, when they had this idea of what it meant to be a musician or a writer or a comedian or whatever it is that they do, an artist.

One of the most consistent things that I really just feel like everyone experiences is I thought this was a thing that you do alone or you do just with your little group, like your little band.

And then they realized that success is actually being part of a scene, is actually being like supported and challenged and inspired by other people.

And so even in the fields that are like like a novelist is not a team sport.