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Jamie Carragher: The Untold Story of Liverpool Legend That Pushed Himself Too Far

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

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Do You Have Obsessive Competitiveness?

I see that in all my guests. Eddie Helen comes to mind. And we all have it hardwired into us as just generally as humans. But then I think some people have it to an even more obsessive degree. It's usually people who've had some early experience where losing came at a real cost to their self-esteem or to someone around them that mattered. That losing meant that they were, they weren't enough. The 10,000 hours of what I did as a kid is almost not just to be a footballer, it's actually to be a pundit, an analyst, whatever you want to call it. You don't realize when you're in it or before that it

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