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Fail Better with David Duchovny

Grace Cohen-Chen

Society & Culture

4.6 • 534 Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

To be human is to fail. And not just to fail once, but to fail a lot. But if it's something we all do so often, why are we so afraid of it? As the author Samuel Beckett once said: “Fail again. Fail better.” This saying means a lot to me and my family – so much so that my daughter even got a tattoo of it. I want to fail better, dammit. So, I’m sitting down with thoughtful people every week to talk about it. Because maybe if we fail better, we’ll feel better. Fail Better - coming May 7, from Lemonada Media. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0	Okay, I'm starting to record something for you.
0:04.3	I just got to say off the bat, I'm so bad with anything technological I've spent the last 10 minutes fucking this up.
0:14.0	Oh man, it's so frustrating to me.
0:23.1	All right, all right, I think I got everything working now.
0:25.6	You're hearing my voice, right?
0:27.5	We're making a podcast.
0:28.9	It's called Fail Better, and I'm David DeCovone.
0:34.1	Why am I making a podcast?
0:36.5	The best answer I can come up with is that I felt like I've been failing my entire life.
0:40.3	So on some level, I can speak from plenty of experience.
0:45.3	I've had personal failures, like we all have.
0:48.3	I've had professional failures like we all have.
0:50.3	I have things that I've been called as an actor.
0:53.3	I had a high-profile divorce,
0:55.8	I had a magical mystery tour through rehab. We don't have to get into specifics now, but stay tuned.
1:01.1	Maybe we will. But I'm no expert, and I don't claim to be. So this is a journey of discovery
1:09.7	for me, and hopefully for you as well.
1:15.3	There's a sense in which failure looms over us.
1:19.2	And I want to know what's good about that and I want to know what's bad about that, what's
1:23.5	inhibiting about that.
1:25.2	What is pushing us forward to be better and what is holding us back in shame.
1:29.2	That's what I want to get into.
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