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S16, Ep11 How To Fail: Bernie Sanders on defeat, defiance and the struggles that shaped him (plus: the power of mittens)

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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How Did You Feel When You Were Rejected for That Basketball Team?

I think young people, obviously, we're all in the process of finding out who we really are. And when you're young, it's quite difficult to differentiate between what people are telling you you are and how you feel inside. I've got this image of the young Bernie Sanders running around Brooklyn. Is that what you used to do, run around the block there? But you don't run all over Brooklyn, but that's a big, that's all many miles. In those days, in high school, it was two and a half miles. And then I was a good miler and a half mile, mostly a mile.

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