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S9, Ep8 How to Fail: James Acaster

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

CHAPTER

Stand Up - Is There a Kind of Unbreakable Self Awareness?

I was going around thinking that I was a really cool, great guy that people wanted to be like. And actually, I was just getting everything wrong. So yeah, stand up is for a while, it made me a lot more self critical maybe and finding faults in myself because those routines were funnier. But also it means that every time I do notice I've done something that might sound stupid or whatever, I don't get out my head for a long time. There's tiny things I've done, you know, years ago in social interactions that I still think of now and go, Oh man, that person must hate me"

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