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S8, Ep3 How to Fail: Matthew Syed

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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How I Overthought My Early Columns

I was so desperately trying to get every sentence right that when you actually look back at it, it was incredibly clunky to contrive. When I did occasionally cover for people who were on holiday and they were a columnist, I realized that I wasn't opinionated enough. So I think I've gone on a maybe a different journey over the past few years where I put in a few caveats just to kind of close off the obvious. And again, without wanting to talk shop too much, I think if you have a decent length for your column, you know, 11, 12 hundred words, you can pull in a few caveat.

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