![]() This long, luxurious life ahead of you is going to make you depressed.įive. Most of you mob are going to live to nearly 100, and even the poorest of you will achieve a level of wealth that most humans throughout history could not have dreamed of. Play a sport, do yoga, pump iron, run, whatever, but take care of your body. You can’t be Kant, and you don’t want to be. You think, therefore you are, but also you jog, therefore you sleep, therefore you’re not overwhelmed by existential angst. I’m sorry, you pasty, pale, smoking philosophy grads, arching your eyebrows into a Cartesian curve as you watch the human movement mob winding their way through the miniature traffic cones of their existence. Empathy is intuitive, but is also something you can work on intellectually.įour. Understanding that you can’t truly take credit for your successes, nor truly blame others for their failures, will humble you and make you more compassionate. Contented homo erectus got eaten before passing on their genes. We didn’t evolve to be constantly content. Keep busy and aim to make someone else happy and you might find you get some as a side effect. If you think about it too much, it goes away. If you focus too far in front of you, you won’t see the shiny thing out of the corner of your eye. Just be aware the next worthy pursuit will probably appear in your periphery, which is why you should be careful of long-term dreams. Put your head down and work with pride on whatever is in front of you. I advocate passionate dedication to the pursuit of short-term goals. If it’s a big enough one, it’ll take you most of your life to achieve, so by the time you get to it and are staring into the abyss of the meaninglessness of your achievement, you’ll be almost dead so it won’t matter. After all, it’s something to do with your time, chasing a dream. Fine, if you have something you’ve always wanted to do, dreamed of in your heart, go for it. Americans on talent shows always talk about their dreams. I will now, at the ripe old age of 37.9, bestow upon you nine life lessons. However, I have had large groups of people listening to what I say for quite a few years now, and it’s given me an inflated sense of self-importance. I’m certainly not here to give career advice, ’cause, well, I’ve never really had what most would consider a job. I’ve never lost a limb on a mountainside, metaphorically or otherwise. When not on tour, Tim lives in London with his wife and two children.I’m not an inspirational speaker. Tim Minchin wrote the music and lyrics for the award-winning musical Matilda for the Royal Shakespeare Company: an adaptation of the Roald Dahl children's story about a very bright and rebellious little girl, with special powers. Tim's show Ready For This? has toured the UK and Australia and New Zealand to sell-out audiences for the past two years. ![]() Tim Minchin has become a favourite at various UK festivals including: Latitude in 2008 and The Big Chill and Reading and Leeds Weekends in 2009. In Australia, Tim Minchin has performed sell-out shows at the Sydney Opera House, the Brisbane Powerhouse and His Majesty's Theatre in Perth, and has performed at the Adelaide Fringe, the Adelaide Cabaret Festival, the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and the Big Laugh Festival in Sydney. In November that year, he performed at the HBO Comedy Festival in Las Vegas and sold out short seasons at Ars Nova in New York and the ACME Comedy Theatre in LA. He appeared at the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival in 2006 and the HBO US Comedy Arts Festival in Aspen, Colorado in January 2007, where he won the award for Best Alternative Comedian. He subsequently went on to perform Dark Side at the Soho Theare and the Lyric Theatre in London's West End, and also appeared on a bill with Mariah Carey and Westlife at the Royal Albert Hall, London. At the Edinburgh Fringe, Tim Minchin became one of the most successful ever debut acts, selling out the 300-seat Debating Hall and winning the Perrier Award for Best Newcomer. This show won the inaugural Festival Directors' Award and was picked up by legendary Edinburgh producer, Karen Koren, matriarch of the Gilded Balloon. He developed his unique style during an 18-month period when he played regularly in the famous 40-seat cabaret room of The Butterfly Club in South Melbourne, before producing his break out show, Dark Side, at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 2005. In 2002, he moved to Melbourne, where he began to develop the solo comedy shows which have gained him public and critical acclaim in the last three years. Originally from Perth, Tim Minchin completed a Bachelor of Arts in English and Theatre at the University of Western Australia in 1995, then an Advanced Diploma in Contemporary Music at the Conservatorium of WA - part of the WA Academy of Performing Arts - in 1998.
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