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Thomas Curran

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714 total appearances

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Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

You just come out and say it, right?

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Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

Like, this is the industry you're in, and it's a performance industry.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

People are going to review your work all the time.

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Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

i honestly don't know how you do it honestly i don't know how you do it because i would get away with it because i i especially like well maybe because of this kind of comedy especially you joe well hold on i've read the book

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

Yeah.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

So standing on stage in front of people trying to be funny is just my worst nightmare.

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Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

Because all I have to do is worst night out.

Chatabix
Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

Yeah.

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Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

So big, big respect because it must be tough.

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Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

But there you go.

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Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

Oh, goodness me, that's a huge question.

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Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

Well, I don't know the answer to that.

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Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

Just like most social scientists, we are guessing.

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Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

But I would say there's a few good places we can look to.

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Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

If you want to start big, the whole society is built, or the whole economy is built on a framework of everybody's discontent to some extent.

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Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

Because if we felt contented,

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Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

then we wouldn't need to consume and work so hard.

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Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

And if we didn't do those things, then of course, jobs would be lost, businesses would close.

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Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

A very, very short order would be in a very difficult recession.

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Specialist Guest: 'The Perfection Trap' Thomas Curran

So if you want to get like the really root of it, like our whole economy really spins on an axis of discontent.