#552: Aisha Tyler — How to Use Pain, Comedy, and Practice for Creativity (Repost)

Tim Ferriss (0:24)

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Well, hello, my darling little mogwai. This is Tim Ferris, and welcome to another episode of The Tim Ferris Show, where it is my job to deconstruct world-class performers, to tease out the habits, routines, experiences, life lessons, frameworks, et cetera, that you can hopefully apply to your own lives. My guest today is someone I've known for quite a few years now. She's incredible, Aisha Tyler. That is A-I-S-H-A-T-Y-L-E-R on Twitter, Instagram, Vimeo, and beyond.

She is an award-winning director, actor, comedian, bestselling author, podcaster, and activist. She does just about everything. And if you've enjoyed my episodes with, for instance, Brandon Stanton, Debbie Millman, or Adam Robinson, among others, you will love this one.

Whether you do creative work, want to be too complex to categorize, want to overcome rejection and be the odds, despite the fears and insecurities we all have, this will have something for you.

Aisha voices super spy Lana Kane on FX's Emmy award-winning animated comedy series, Archer, which won four back-to-back Television Critics' Choice Awards. She is a regular on the hit CBS show, Criminal Minds, now in its 13th season, for which she has also directed. Aisha continues to host the CW's hit improv show, Whose Line Is It Anyway? And she's launching a line of bottled cocktails she created, Courage and Stone, in summer of 2018 Take a breath.