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S4, Ep3 How to Fail: Tracey Thorn

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Importance of Preparing for the Worst

I am a catastrophic thinker. The only way you can get through life is just sort of get on with it and not think about all the terrible things that might happen every single day. I've been driving and then I start thinking, oh my God, I'm going to have a horrible crash. But it is such a sort of profound thing really because it's also a take on life. So much of motherhood parenting is just manual labour. It's just sheer physical drudgery. You don't really have the energy to actually work through all your catastrophic fantasies. That's almost a blessing I think.

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