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S3, Ep4 How to Fail: Deborah Frances-White
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Patti's Mantra for Facing
Patti's mantra was for this, and she'd get us to shout it at the beginning of every class. At any point if we were feeling tense and tight and like incapable and tongue tied, you'd just say, 'We suck and we love to fail' She taught us two things: structure of story and ways to create characters. And that failure in this context has zero consequences. This has blown my mind because everything in life wasn't about individual talent. It was about what processes will keep an audience transfixed. You're so right about using chemicals or whatever... I did similar science as a GCSE - but with people instead of myself. So interesting how much I've
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