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S1, Ep3 How to Fail: Dolly Alderton

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Importance of Privilege

I remember being disproportionately devastated at the age of 17 when I failed my driving test. And similarly, I'd been to a state secondary school and then got a scholarship to a boarding school in England. So I was also incredibly privileged and had this education that did save me in many ways from myself and for my own lack of confidence. It's totally because what the template has taught you so far is I study, I pay money or my parents pay money for a person to help me study maybe an extra mile and then I do it and it's all fine. That's just not how life works. But yeah, it was a good lesson to me because it made me acknowledge the extent of

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