How to Deal With Failure and Success

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I think very, very few people have like completely unbroken success. When you do have that first failure, flop, whatever, you just have absolutely no tools to deal with it. And the good thing about having messing up at a very early ages is that you're like, well, this can always go wrong. You know, that is always a possibility. And you will be fine if it does, because it's just a play or a book or whatever. So that led you to Germany, which is sort of what we talked about before. And then there you were in Germany, it's kind of touring around doing comedy, stand up comedy. What's the next part of

James Harris is a writer, comedian, English teacher and language learner (French, German, Chinese) from England. In this funny chat, we talk about learning Chinese, being married to a Chinese woman and his semi-autobiographical book, "Midlands" which tells several funny and touching stories about two ex-pats living in Germany; Stuart, who is a stand-up comedian trying to understand the Germans, and Doug who gets involved in a love affair. James reads several passages from the book during the episode.

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