Kumail Nanjiani

Yeah.

And it's hard.

It's hard to still your mind.

But even if you're not successful in it, just the attempt is worthwhile because then even you find out sitting there, oh, these are the things that are bothering me right now.

Even that awareness is important.

So really it was the choice to have it be a joyful experience that did a lot for me.

But then it's sort of evolved since then too in that I'm trying to be able to, I'm trying to see how to articulate it.

I find the joy in learning.

I find the joy in knowing what I know and knowing what I don't know.

And knowing what I know is hard to still admit.

It just makes me a better person.

It makes me better at my work.

It also makes me my writing deeper too.

It makes me...

I don't know, just get inside myself more.

Yeah.

For me, I learned that lesson sort of undeniably in acting where it's like, let's say you're doing six takes and I work with people who will try different things every time.

I don't mean they're trying new words.

They're just taking different swings each time.

And if it doesn't work, they're like, oh, that didn't work.