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S15, Ep10 How To Fail: Tom Daley, the Olympic diving champion on his fear of mistakes, body image and perfectionism

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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The Fear of Mistakes

I think I've always had this fear of making mistakes or fearing of not being good. When you're growing up as a queer kid, you figure out like you don't want to disappoint in any more ways. So I found myself really trying to be an overachiever in every single thing that I did. And it was once coming out and actually figuring out to actually accept who I was That was when things started to change in that way.

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