Elizabeth Day (REPLAY): On Creating 'How To Fail' Book & Podcast

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🗓️ 29 April 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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This is a replay of an episode recorded in 2019 with the brilliant Elizabeth Day around the publication of her book How To Fail, a brilliant memoir slash manifesto she published off the back of her incredibly successful podcast How To Fail with Elizabeth Day, a celebration of the things that haven't gone right. A podcast that keeps on growing and giving us such brilliant guests and food for thought. Since this episode, Elizabeth has written another book called Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong and also been announced as a new presenter on Radio 4's Open Book. She also has a new novel out soon called Magpie which you can pre-order now In this episode we talk about personal writing, success 'triggers', fertility, friendship, failures and why having your own personal definition of success is super important.

How To Fail: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9780008327354

Failosophy: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9780008420383

Magpie: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9780008374952

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0:58.0	Hello and welcome back to Control or Delete. This is a replay of an old episode recorded in 2019
1:04.2	with Elizabeth Day. Around the publication of her book How to Fail, a brilliant memoir
1:09.4	slash manifesto, she published off the back of her incredibly successful podcast How to Fail
1:14.8	with Elizabeth Day, a celebration of the things that haven't gone right. A podcast that keeps on
1:20.3	growing and giving us such brilliant guests and food for thought. And since this episode,
1:24.8	Elizabeth has written another book called Failosophy, a handbook for when things go wrong,
1:30.4	and it's super uplifting and warm and practical and helpful, and has been endorsed by people
1:36.2	like a landed bot on, I really recommend picking up a copy. And she's also been announced as a new
1:41.6	presenter on Radio 4's open book, as well as writing a new novel called Magpie, which is available
1:48.4	to pre-order now. And she is amazing. She is creating so much all the time. In this episode we talk
1:54.8	about personal writing, success triggers, fertility, friendship, failures, and why having your own
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