Gahy humans. Welcome to the safe space for dangerous ideas. One of the most dangerous ideas that

I routinely have to wrestle with is the idea of how much resilience I have. This has been a difficult

week, one of the most difficult professional weeks of my life, and I think I need to hear the sound of my own voice and as I do

so I suspect that I might say things that could come in handy and be somewhat uplifting as I

embrace my middle-aged mentor status perhaps to some younger people who are just starting out in this

world and who are starting to forge

creative careers of their own. This is some advice that I'm reminding myself of this week that I think

you might also benefit from. I won't go into great detail. Suffice it to say that there was a big

project, television project, which isn't going to happen in the way that I thought it was.

And it's got me thinking about the ups and downs of life and the peaks and troughs of this crazy caper.

It's time to reflect for me on what success looks like. And it's a reminder that what success looks

like is actually more about what you do with failure

than it is about what you do with success. Like there's this illusion that we sometimes have that

successful people are people who have lots of successes, but that's not true. They're people

who have just as much failures as people who we regard as failures do.

They just don't allow the failures to become definitive. They don't allow the failures to

become salient. They regard the failures as bumps in the road on a big chaotic journey.

They carry on, they dust themselves off and they approach the next challenge with a spirit of

excitement and enchantment and a little sprinkle of pixie dust.

And if that falls over, then they get up again and they dust themselves off and they move on.

And they only allow themselves to be defined by their successes.

One of the most profound conversations I ever had was with the amazing actor Frank

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