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The Wooden Spoon

Sorry, your application was unsuccessful | Rejection, failure and university

The Wooden Spoon

Sixteenth Productions

Education

4.92.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Have you ever been rejected? Have you ever failed at achieving a goal? Episode 1 of "The Wooden Spoon" explores how the definition of failure is subjective, as well as discussing society's view on failure. We hear about the group's biggest personal rejections (such as being rejected from top universities like Oxford and Cambridge) and consider what comes after failure - reflection, growth and ultimately success.

Make sure to follow The Wooden Spoon Playlist here: https://spoti.fi/2GRft2C


Featuring Ruby Granger, Jade Bowler, Eve Cornwell and Jack Edwards


Mentioned in this episode:

- Guy Winch - Emotional First Aid

- TED Talk - ‘The Benefits of Rejection’

- George Ezra & Friends - Lily Allen

- 100 Days of Rejection Experiment

- Anna Wintour - The Late Late Show With James Corden

- Oprah Winfrey: 5 Things You Didn’t Know - Vogue.com

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to the first ever episode of The Woodens Boon.

0:14.4

Now what is The Woodens Boon?

0:15.6

I hear you ask well.

0:17.1

Let me tell you.

0:18.1

So The Woodens Boon is a brand new podcast featuring unjaded Jade Ruby Granger, Eve Cornwell

0:23.5

and me Jack Edwards from the YouTube, but this time in audio form.

0:28.4

So The Woodens Boon as a metaphor, it's kind of the thing that you're given if you

0:31.7

come in last place in a race.

0:33.9

And at that time it is a completely useless instrument, it has no purpose.

0:39.0

And so the point of this podcast isn't about, you know, avoiding failure or making sure

0:43.1

that failure never happens.

0:45.0

It's more about redefining failure and embracing failure and making it work to your own

0:50.7

advantage.

0:51.7

The thing about a Woodens Boon is that you can repurpose it, you could use it to bake

0:54.5

a cake or in our instance you could use it to make a song around London landmarks,

0:59.6

which we've been doing to promote the podcast, which has been so fun.

1:03.1

And this weekend we're actually going to VidCon.

1:05.5

By the time this podcast goes up, it would have been in gone.

1:08.0

Hopefully some of you saw us there in this particular episode we're talking about rejection

1:11.7

and personal anecdotes from that kind of thing and what we how we see failure and rejection.

1:16.9

And another thing that I'm really excited about in this podcast is that we have our own

1:20.2

Spotify playlist.

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