Richard Gadd

Yeah.

Oh, really?

Oh, yeah.

I think it's a beautiful quote.

I think like failure is where you sort of grow and develop the most.

I always remember...

you know, thinking back to sort of my early comedy shows at the Fringe, I remember my first ever show I did kind of exploded at the Fringe.

And then I came back the next year and I did a sort of very similar show just with a kind of different spray job on it kind of thing.

And it was still very...

popular show and everything but i didn't feel as buzzy it didn't feel like it was like the industry were as tuned into it or whatever and i felt like it was a step back and i think i realized that i'd kind of done the same thing twice and so it was never going to have the impact of the first one and that was a good failure i look back on in the sense of i think it taught me that you can't just carry on doing the same thing and i think a lot of mistakes that like writers and artists make is they

they kind of make everything the same, but slightly different as they move through their career.

And I think almost like the key to longevity sometimes is testing yourself.

You get better testing yourself, risking failure and sort of reinvention in a way.

And I think like I learned through that failure that I have to keep trying different things in order to make myself a better artist in a way.

And I never would have done that had I not failed.

And so I think, I think failure is where you learn everything.

You don't really learn anything from success.

If anything, it can make you complacent.

If anything, I think that success can make you, your ego bigger and it can make, make you think that you are like, I also think a dangerous thing is when sort of artists kind of start to believe their own mythology, that they are some sort of God given talent.

And I think that that's also very dangerous because I think they start to believe it and it innately impacts their work.