Celebrating Your Weirdness with Thomas Middleditch

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Chase Jarvis

Celebrity, Art, Career, Creativity, Money, Entrepreneurship, Self-improvement, Education, Careers, Writing, Interview, Investment, Influencer, Business, Photography

4.8 • 641 Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2018

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Thomas Middleditch is an actor and comedian best known for his starring role on HBO’s Silicon Valley where he plays Richard, the struggling startup founder. He started his career doing improv theater for the likes of Second City and UCB, and certainly showed off his improv skills during our conversation.

Silicon Valley is the only TV show that I watch religiously, due largely in part to its authentic portrayal of the startup world that I have one foot in the door of. Thomas lives the same authenticity, and isn’t one to shy away from removing the glamour from working in Hollywood. Whether you’re founding a startup, working your way up the rungs as a comedian, or trying to double your client base, you better remember to enjoy what you’re doing to get through the tough days.

In this episode,

* You can’t be passive! If you want things to be happening around you, you have to make them happen.

* If you want to be a good artist, you have to experience life.

* Pursuing your happiness is worth the arduousness, the struggle, the inconveniences, and the trolls. Treat all adversity and every challenge like it’s a buzzer beater shot. Welcome it. Embrace it. Step up.

Enjoy!

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0:00.0	Hey you guys, it's Chase. Welcome to another episode of the show. So happy to be in your ears right now. That's right. We're going to the Chase Jarvis Live show on Creative Live. I am so pumped for today's. Of course, I love all the guests we've had on here. I'm expressly pumped for today, in part because of the human, but also because of where we go
0:24.5	in our conversation.
0:26.3	It's a hell of a journey.
0:28.0	You will know my guest because he is a writer.
0:30.9	He's a stand-up comedian, and he's also an actor.
0:33.8	You will know him specific.
0:35.4	I'm laughing because he just plays an amazing character
0:38.1	on the HBO hit series Silicon Valley. My guest is Thomas Middletch. He plays Richard. That's
0:45.1	right. The leading role. And what an amazing conversation we have. If you've ever felt,
0:51.3	as I know we all have, let's be real, if you've ever felt fear,
0:54.4	anxiety, stress about taking the next step in your career, you have to listen to this.
1:00.2	There's this amazing sort of undercurrent of comedy, but also of amazing sort of real, just
1:06.3	absolute accurate real context about what it's like to put yourself out there, to be a creator,
1:11.7	to do something bold, and to have it fall on deaf ears. Also, the upside of wild success.
1:19.0	Obviously, he's on one of the biggest hit shows right now that HBO has, and it's just,
1:24.3	it's an amazing journey. We cover a ton of ground. So if you if you'd all like either Silicon Valley or specifically
1:31.3	This journey that we've all shared it's a must listen. We also cover topics super wide-ranging from aviation video games
1:38.6	The environment what we should be doing to put ourselves out there more, to protect ourselves in an industry
1:45.0	like Hollywood that, where you can be the hot thing today and then forgotten tomorrow and
1:51.1	of course vice versa. There's a lot of, a lot of conversation in this episode about resiliency,
1:56.9	about self-belief, about how you stay into the game,
2:01.3	even when it's tough.
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