Richard Gadd

Like, and I always like say to any writers, like, how do I be a writer?

It doesn't matter your intelligence, where you come from, your upbringing, anything.

It's about the hours you put into it.

Like it's hard work trumps everything.

Intelligence, upbringing.

I've long learned that like hard work is the absolute key to anything in life if you want something bad enough, for sure.

Yeah, I think for me, certainly safe.

I think that's it.

I think I know where I stand when I'm working.

I think I sort of, I feel perhaps confident in a work zone in a way that I don't in sort of life sometimes.

I'm not saying I find it easy, like work is, we both know it's supremely challenging all the time in so many different ways, but...

I don't know.

It just seems to make sense with me.

And sometimes when I take a day off, which is so rare, like so rare that I take a day off, this is going to sound so bleak, but I sometimes feel like something's missing.

Like I almost don't know how to plug into the world.

Like I sometimes find like work can be so intense, especially the pressure of television where like every minute counts and you have to get film, you have to get everything filmed by the end of the day.

The pressure is so

unimaginable sometimes but there is also like an addictive sort of adrenaline to it all where it's like a thrill like it's a real thrill and I think that is sort of quintessential workaholism in a way.

I honestly sometimes think like I've become so lost in work in both good in good ways and sort of

intense ways to the point where I almost don't know why other than I just feel so compelled to sort of do it almost like it's just like such a part of me now that my life kind of revolves around it and I'm sort of in it and I enjoy it and I'm kind of addicted to it that it just becomes