Dr Pippa Grange
Happy Place
Fearne Cotton
4.6 • 15.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
It’s often the case that fear is running the show. Dr Pippa Grange says it’s not always obvious that you’re afraid – you might be more familiar with the kind of fear you feel in the moment, like taking a driving test or giving a presentation – but it can in fact sneakily manifest as the chronic fear of not being good enough, and of being rejected.
In this chat with Fearne, psychologist Pippa explains why you have to fail before you succeed. As the woman who supported the England football team during the 2018 World Cup, she explains when it’s important to set performance based goals, and when to let go of thinking you can control the outcome.
Pippa’s book, Fear Less, is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Well hello there and welcome to Happy Place. I'm Fern cotton and this is the place where |
| 0:06.8 | we can celebrate the chaos of real life. Today I'm meeting Dr Pippa Grange. Life isn't |
| 0:14.5 | a self-improvement project. It's like you know how wonderful would it be if we took time |
| 0:19.7 | to go left or right rather than up if we allowed descent as well as assent, you know if |
| 0:27.0 | we could spend time learning something other than something that would improve us, you know |
| 0:33.0 | that wasn't for any gain, wasn't for anything that would make you better. Pippa is a psychologist. |
| 0:39.3 | She played a pivotal role in the England football team's 2018 World Cup run. That was the |
| 0:44.7 | time the team reached the semi-finals and she talks a lot about the concept of expanding |
| 0:49.4 | ourselves rather than improving ourselves which I love and now she's written a book called |
| 0:56.6 | Fear Less. Oh this book is bloody brilliant. Now Pippa came round to my house at the end |
| 1:03.0 | of last year for a coffee and such a lovely chat centering around our fears. She also kindly |
| 1:10.8 | bought me a hand knitted pink woolen hat and you know like a scarf but it's not a scarf |
| 1:18.3 | because it's all joined up like a tubular thing. I can't think what that's called. Anyway |
| 1:22.2 | it's cozy, it's work wonders throughout the winter. What a kind thoughtful soul. Oh |
| 1:27.6 | snowed, is it a snood? I think it's a snood. Anyway back to the point. We were talking |
| 1:33.0 | all about fear. Now not necessarily obvious fears like that of perhaps public speaking |
| 1:38.1 | or heights but our root fears as humans maybe fear of abandonment of rejection of being |
| 1:45.2 | dismissed ultimately of not being good enough. Those are the things that drive us to make |
| 1:51.4 | or not make so many decisions in life and I really hope hearing Pippa talk makes you |
| 1:57.2 | think about how capable and how bloody powerful you are if only you could let go of that fear |
| 2:04.1 | that might be holding you back. It can feel like there's quite a lot of pressure for |
| 2:11.5 | Christmas to be the most fun, the most sparkly day and I really really hope that yours is |
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