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Dan Levy

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Therapuss with Jake Shane
Session 115: Dan Levy

Then you go through like a cycle of talking about your work.

Therapuss with Jake Shane
Session 115: Dan Levy

And when you talk about your work and people pedestalize your work, then you start to talk about the like...

Therapuss with Jake Shane
Session 115: Dan Levy

how profound your work is, which you've never thought about before.

Therapuss with Jake Shane
Session 115: Dan Levy

Then you start to talk about, okay, well, like, I guess I am doing something important.

Therapuss with Jake Shane
Session 115: Dan Levy

And then when the dust settles of all of it, you're like, what a clown.

Therapuss with Jake Shane
Session 115: Dan Levy

I, I think I walked away from when the Emmys happened and we, we want, I mean, I said it in my Emmy speech, which breaks my heart.

Therapuss with Jake Shane
Session 115: Dan Levy

I actually said when I won my last Emmy of the night, can't believe that's a sentence.

Therapuss with Jake Shane
Session 115: Dan Levy

I think I said, I apologized.

Therapuss with Jake Shane
Session 115: Dan Levy

Because I was so aware that this was the moment when people were going to say, okay, they have too much.

Therapuss with Jake Shane
Session 115: Dan Levy

And I was aware of it in real time.

Therapuss with Jake Shane
Session 115: Dan Levy

And it's one of the big heartbreaks was the fact that culture or the way that we respond to people's success can sometimes be vicious after a certain point.

Therapuss with Jake Shane
Session 115: Dan Levy

It's like you see it with people.

Therapuss with Jake Shane
Session 115: Dan Levy

It's like we lift them up, we lift them up, we lift them up, we lift them up.

Therapuss with Jake Shane
Session 115: Dan Levy

And then at some point, there's a tipping point where the media decides, okay, they've had enough.

Therapuss with Jake Shane
Session 115: Dan Levy

Why do you think that is?

Therapuss with Jake Shane
Session 115: Dan Levy

Because you can't, the balloon can't stay afloat forever.