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Coping with "failure" or in your case Mike, I'd call it more like "feelings of inadequacy" because by very many metrics you are not a failure, is always hard, especially in a creative and competitive field like yours. I'm in music and feel very similar feelings. Here's what's worked for me: 1. Most people don't even try. They fantasize about how cool it would be a comedian or musician or artist but that's it. You actually did the thing, you have cultivated a following who enjoys your comedy and your podcast and observations. Your name is out there. You made a mark. Most people don't and didn't even try to. 2. Everyone always wants more. The people who you look at and want their successes, themselves have people they look at whose successes they also envy, and so on. Your heroes have heroes too. You can go down the rabbit hole of wanting more forever. It's an insatiable desire. 3. There are people who want what you have. A wife and family, making your art in Da Big City, working through the bullshit of it all, it's not half bad. Silver linings, gratefulness etc. We're not under rocket fire. 4. Our personal artistic successes are not as imperative as the liberation of the oppressed people's of the world, and you've done a lot of good shining a light on that stuff too. You've got a lot to be proud of Mike, existence itself just sucks. Keep on keeping on man, you're not a failure in our eyes.