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S16, Ep6 How To Fail: Rick Edwards on confidence, competitiveness and the lessons he's learned from past relationships

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

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Are You Friends With Your Ego?

I was an attention seeker in quite a detrimental way to my sort of school life, I got in trouble at school because I just sort of messed around and wanted people to laugh. And so school was tricky, not particularly for me, but definitely for my classmates and my teachers who didn't really like my stuff actually. So when I got to university, sort of found an outlet to kind of do that legitimately in doing some sort of like sketches and a bit of stand up. And then eventuallysort of, you know, ended up doing TV stuff, thinking that I would really revel in the kind of Attention as that's what I'd always been seeking. But the reality is, I don

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