14th April - The Trots



I've been glued to the toilet today, I'm writing this diary entry in the evening of the day, and my count is up to 12. I won't disgust you with the gory details but I had some chicken from a local restaurant last night, and I've got a feeling it was cooked in some sort of secret lovely marinade of ecoli, ebola, AIDS, and norovirus. Topped with a sprinkling of kidney failure, and alopecia. My bottom has been crackling away like a catherine wheel.

Aside from that, I've been digging deep into various episodes of the 'Diary of a CEO' podcasts, in particular those concerning Jimmy Carr, and Dr Steve Peters. Jimmy, unlike the perception of him we have based on his slick wit on TV comedy pal shows, or via Netflix stand-up specials, demonstrates himself to be a truly philosophical being, unveiling the mask of his public persona, to reveal a real authentic, deep-thinker. 




Peters, if you're unaware, is the author of the best-selling 'chimp paradox' book, and is also the leading psychologist of the modern generation, having worked with the likes of Ronnie O'Sullivan, Steven Gerrard, and Sir Chris Hoy. Both gentlemen, across their respective episodes, aired so many epiphany-like viewpoints that I started to delve into the notes section of my phone to record their wisdom so that I could peruse it at my own leisure. Over the course of the coming diary entries, I'll be delving into some of these nuggets, but today I'd love to just quickly touch on one of the points which was made. 

My reasoning for selecting Jimmy's episode was that I'd seen various clips from the podcast cut into bitesize chunks and posted to TikTok, such was the genius-like level of insight he'd discussed. And perhaps my favourite, was when he asked the simple question... When you're on an aeroplane and it starts to crash, what do we have to do? We have to reach for our own oxygen masks, and trying to reach for others or help those around us, could actually hinder them. This is the same as life. We must learn to look after our own wellbeing first, and once we do that, we'll prosper as happy people, who will then enrich those around us too, via our happy and positive attitudes. He mused that in order to achieve such a feat, we must first ask ourselves... What do we want, more than anything else? In my case right now...




... That thing is toilet roll. 


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