
S16, Ep8 How To Fail: Joan Bakewell - the legendary broadcaster on life, love and everything in between
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
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Do You Know How to Find a Solution When the World Is Rejecting You?
If I get rejected for something, I try to seek another way to find the same satisfaction. If an article that you've written is rejected by a newspaper, I don't let it lie. I would think, well, who else would be interested in it? And I think that's what I always do. Because that requires a degree of self-belief, which I really admire. Some people might take that rejection very personally and think, "I'm not good enough" But I believe that, you know,try, try, try again. These are old-fashioned, rather puritanical values. If you're rejected, you must come back fighting. It's behind all
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