Richard Gadd

And then when it came to sort of school, I'm not saying I was like the smartest kid in the class, but I worked so hard at school.

And I always remember even at my standard grades when things I knew were getting serious or when things mattered for the future,

I remember knowing in a way that, oh, this stuff matters, this in the future, this counts for something.

And really putting myself through my own sort of revision, as you call it, I suppose.

And to the point where my friends were like, you're mad, you're working too much.

So even back at school, I felt like I was pretty ferocious worker.

I went to uni and I remember, I went to like a state comprehensive school and I went to uni and I remember first thing I felt when I went there was like a real intimidation.

I think a lot of like very, very smart sort of private school kids who kind of, you know, had a lot of, who were well-versed in sort of independent thinking and all this kind of stuff that I would be in tutorials and I'd be like, oh God, oh God, I feel like I'm behind here.

And I always remember I kind of struggled through my first few years of university, like not getting the grades I should have and feeling, you know, like just struggling, like really, really struggling.

I remember like taking a summer off because

In Scotland, you do a kind of dummy year, a couple of dummy years before it actually counts towards your degree.

And I remember the summer before everything I did counted towards my degree.

I took that summer off.

I stayed in Glasgow.

All my friends moved back home, went out, went abroad.

And I went to the library and I read all these books on writing essay.

I almost went back to basics over the summer because I was like, I'm doing something wrong here.

And I started to, I worked all the way through the summer.

I'd write dummy essays and set myself deadlines.

And then I started to get good grades and, you know, I ended up getting a first at uni and I went from a first to like barely getting a D, from barely getting a D. And I kind of realized in that moment, like if you put the hours in, it matters more than anything.