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#84: How to Turn Pain Into Creativity (Whitney Cummings)

The Tim Ferriss Show

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I Love You, Can You Please Drop My Computers?

As a child, the writer says she had to defend herself against bullies. Humor is usually developed as a shield slash defense mechanism for fragile people who need more attention than most. "You're not good enough, you're not funny enough," writers are told all day by their bosses.

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