S15, Ep10 How To Fail: Tom Daley, the Olympic diving champion on his fear of mistakes, body image and perfectionism
How To Fail With Elizabeth Day
Sony Music
4.8 • 9.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2022
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
He joins me to talk about diving failures, choking at the Rio Olympics, anxiety, body image, the curse of perfectionism, parenthood via surrogacy and what knitting has taught him about mistakes (surprisingly profound fyi). Plus: how he persuaded Kate Moss to pose for his GCSE photography project.
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Made with Love, Tom Daley's guide to knitting and crochet, is out now and available to order here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Made-Love-step-step-award-winning/dp/0008546827
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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted and produced by Elizabeth Day. To contact us, email [email protected]
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| 0:30.4 | Hello and welcome to How to Fail with Elizabeth Day. |
| 0:47.6 | The podcast that celebrates the things that haven't gone right. |
| 0:52.0 | This is a podcast about learning from our mistakes and understanding that why we fail ultimately |
| 0:57.6 | makes us stronger. |
| 0:59.5 | Because learning how to fail in life actually means learning how to succeed better. |
| 1:04.6 | I'm your host, author and journalist Elizabeth Day and every week I'll be asking a new |
| 1:10.3 | interviewee what they've learned from failure. |
| 1:14.2 | Tom Daley is only 28 but his achievements belong to that of a much older person. |
| 1:20.6 | As a sportsman his awards are Legion, he's an Olympic gold medalist diver, a three time |
| 1:26.2 | world champion and the first ever British person to win four Olympic diving medals. |
| 1:31.8 | He started diving at the age of seven and his talent was spotted early at the Plymouth |
| 1:36.2 | diving club. |
| 1:37.5 | By 14 he was the youngest competitor at the 2008 Summer Olympics. |
| 1:43.8 | Away from the diving platform, Daley's life has been one of growth and personal challenge. |
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