![]() ![]() There's her failure at school and her failure at being what she thought her twenties should be and her failure at casual dating. Each chapter in How To Fail, her recently released book based on the podcast, explores a different part of failure in her own life. Though she is a fantastic interviewer and a natural at podcasting, Day is an even better writer. That this book is now a manifesto-cum-memoir of sorts is no surprise. It is, somewhat ironically, phenomenally successful. ![]() The podcast is warm, funny and totally empathetic. ![]() It has been downloaded more than a million times and featured guests including Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lily Allen and Dolly Alderton talking frankly and openly about the biggest fuck ups in their life thus far and what can be learned from them. And yet her most recent project is a podcast called How To Fail. How to Fail, Elizabeth Day Elizabeth Day is an award-winning journalist and novelist and, it must be said, an enormously successful person. There was a pressure to conform to the tidal wave of non-conformity." There was a pressure to conform to the tidal wave of non-conformity. Yet all around me, everyone else seemed to be having a wild time experimenting with drink, drugs and sexual partners, and I felt I should be doing the same. "That was the thing about my twenties: it was meant to be a decade of experimentation, but sometimes the experiments taught you nothing other than that you shouldn't have done it in the first place. ![]()
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