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S5 BONUS EPISODE! How to Fail: Philippa Perry and Sadie Jones

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Importance of Roles

We tend to go when we've got like three children. Jim is the Joker, Catherine's the quiet studious one and Rocky's the baby. These roles can be very restricting if nobody manages to convince anyone else that they're different. We confuse familiar with being true and right because it feels so good. It really restricts us because a judgment or a role is like a full stop. There's nowhere to go after you've been given a role. After you've been told you're the quiet one, you feel like you're betraying everybody. If you open your mouth. And so don't let's judge ourselves or each other and put ourselves into roles and say, oh, I

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