5 Expert Productivity Lessons From Jerry Seinfeld
Valuable productivity advice from one of the world’s greatest comedians.
“No one else has his work ethic or his clarity of vision, his passion for the craft.”
— Judd Apatow when describing Jerry Seinfeld
In the 1990’s, Jerry Seinfeld had the biggest comedy show on television. Legions of adoring fans would be glued to their screens whenever an episode was on. Going for 9 seasons straight, NBC offered Jerry the opportunity to do a 10th season, for 1 million dollars per episode. He turned it down.
Instead, the comedian went back to his first passion: stand-up. The man worth hundreds of millions of dollars decided to start from the bottom. As a huge star, he didn’t need to work for a living ever again. Yet here he was, in dingy smoke-filled underground clubs trying to make a bunch of drunk people laugh.
In 2002, a documentary about this process came out. Titled “Comedian”, it followed Jerry Seinfeld and another young comedian Orny Adams, as they went through their season of doing stand-up. It wasn’t all peaches and roses for Jerry. He still messed up from time to time.
