Scott Barry Kaufman

He said, I went like 25, 30 years trying to do standup and I sucked.

He said, people booed me off stage.

He's like, I thought I had no talents.

I thought like my life was like over, you know?

And then, you know, he, him and Seinfeld were like, let's start a TV show.

He realized that, wow, like this, this was my very specific niche that like, I can actually be great and I can actually flourish.

And I just, we, I think we have to really remember that

Life is this overarching curve that we're not defined or limited by who we are or how we're being received in this moment in time.

Thank you.

It was a real pleasure always talking to you.

I just remember being taunted and being told things like, oh, you're too stupid to go on to fourth grade, you idiot, that sort of thing.

But yeah, it was really painful.

It almost instantly seduced me into loving the science of IQ intelligence.

And I forgot that I was supposed to be on this vendetta.

I forgot.

It made it very hard for me to process auditory input in real time.

And so I was a couple milliseconds behind everyone else.

I would hear things and then I would have to, in my head, cognitively process it.

Like listen to it over again while everyone else was already on to the next thing.

You know, it's very easy to look at someone and just judge them as dumb because they're slower than someone else.