Hello and welcome to How to Fail with Elizabeth Day. The podcast that celebrates the things

that haven't gone right. This is a podcast about learning from our mistakes and understanding

that why we fail ultimately makes us stronger because learning how to fail in life actually

means learning how to succeed better. I'm your host, author and journalist Elizabeth

Day and every week I'll be asking a new interviewee what they've learned from failure.

Jane Goodall is a scientist, conservationist and humanitarian whose groundbreaking discoveries

have shaped our understanding of what it is to be human. Her 60-year study of social and family

interactions of wild chimpanzees in Tanzania, which she undertook at first with no formal training,

challenged and overturned much of the conventional scientific thinking at the time.

Goodall's work was pioneering in both our understanding of ourselves and in opening the

doors for other women in science. In 1977 she founded the Jane Goodall Institute, a global

community conservation organisation. Her tireless work over the years, she is now 88, has won her

a legion of admirers, including David Attenborough, Leonardo DiCaprio, Prince Harry and Greta

Tounberg, who calls Goodall a true hero. But her starting life was far removed from the

forests of Tanzania. She was born in Hampstead, North London, to a businessman father and a novelist

mother and grew up in Bournemouth. As a child, Goodall's father gave her a stuffed chimpanzee

as an alternative to a teddy bear. Goodall credits her love of animals to her early affection for this

soft toy, whom she called Jubilee. Now Goodall is a UN messenger of peace, a dame, the author of

numerous books, including ones for children, and was named one of the world's 100 most influential

people by Time magazine in 2019. Her latest publication is an investigation into the necessity of hope.

Call simply the Book of Hope, it was an instant New York Times bestseller. In it,

Dr Goodall draws on the wisdom of a lifetime dedicated to nature to teach us how to find strength

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