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Louis Theroux: "The Thing That Makes Me Great At Work, Makes Me Bad At Life!"

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Are You Trying to Talk Yourself Out of It?

I'm very inclined to agree to do things and that can get you in trouble because you find you're over. I find I over agree and make unrealistic commitments. So I try and ring fence my commitment levels, but that's not easy. The thing that it makes me reflect on is the extent to which we’re conditioned and groomed into behaviors that can be healthy or unhealthy or positive or not positive. That idea that, Oh, you know, you can pull yourself up by the bootstraps. Like he didn't see himself as someone who would have various kinds of success. But other along the way, people among Michael Moore, um, people at the BBC who then

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