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Paul McKenna's positivity podcast.

Hello, this is Paul McKenna, and welcome to the positivity podcast.

My objective is to interview the most interesting people in the world,

and in the next 30 minutes, get insights and even discover how it is that they do what they do,

what makes them unique and fascinating, their success

mindset, and certainly what keeps them positive.

My guest today is one of the world's most successful novelists, having sold over 70 million

books, many of them having been made into movies such as The Day of the Jackal.

He's also a journalist and political commentator.

I'm talking today with Freddie Forsyne.

A lot of people will say, yeah, well, okay, interesting, river curves, so what?

Go on and picking mushrooms.

I've got to find out what's around that curve.

I plan and plot and prepare, then do something.

I've had luck all of my life, and I don't know why.

It was luck that I got into the air force,

luck that I got selected for flying training,

luck that I got my wings.

Hello, Freddie. Hi. So, can I ask you, did you have a sort of childhood dream to be a writer?

No. It was a complete fluke. It was a coincidence. My first admission as a kid was to be a pilot.

I was obsessed by aircraft. But then, perhaps I should pointed out, I was born in 938, so I was a small boy under the Battle of Britain, in East Kent, and then obviously

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