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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

SPECIAL EPISODE! How to Fail: Mo Gawdat on how to cope with anxiety in a time of Coronavirus

How To Fail With Elizabeth Day

Sony Music

Society & Culture

4.79.6K Ratings

🗓️ 23 March 2020

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Hello. I hope you're all doing ok out there. Bit of a strange time isn't it? It can feel overwhelming to be living through a global pandemic, but there are things all of us can do - small things that can have big impact. We can stay at home and save lives. We can distance socially and help the heroic health carers working on the frontline of this disease. We can spread a little positivity. We can refuse to panic buy toilet roll. And I, at least, can make podcasts so that you can listen to them and hopefully feel a little less alone.When I was thinking of who I most wanted to hear from about how to live through this unprecedented moment in our history, there was really only one answer. It was Mo Gawdat. I originally met Mo when I interviewed him in Season 4 of the podcast. You can listen to that episode here. He told me about how he had developed a seemingly simple algorithm that enables every single person to be happy, whatever the circumstances - you can read more about that in his book Solve For Happy. Meeting Mo had a huge impact on me. I know it also helped a great many of you - at every event I do now, at least one person will come up to me to say Mo has changed their life for the better.I am so, so grateful to Mo for agreeing to come back onto the podcast to discuss how to live with anxiety and isolation in a time of Coronavirus. We talk about how to handle negative thoughts, how to practise gratitude and the concept of 'committed acceptance' which focuses on a) accepting the situation and b) within that acceptance, working out what you can actively do to make life better. He shares with us his own daily routine for self-isolation, the difference between the inevitability of pain and the choice of suffering, the wondrous abilities of the brain to come up with narratives which sometimes do not serve us and the importance of understanding the impact exercising our own free will have on others. Along the way, we argue about whether Love Actually is the best romcom of all time.I hope you enjoy the episode and that it brings you some comfort as you go about your day. Sending love to you all.* How To Fail With Elizabeth Day is hosted by Elizabeth Day, produced by Naomi Mantin and recorded, edited and mixed by Chris Sharp. We love hearing from you! To contact us, email howtofailpod@gmail.com* Social Media:Elizabeth Day @elizabdayMo Gawdat @mgawdat   Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Now time for a quick message from Canva. Creating visual content is an essential part of what I do.

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Regular listeners will know that before I knew any better, I drew my own logo for How To Feel With Felt It Pens.

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The creative process, as you can imagine, hasn't always been easy for me.

0:19.0

And in the past, I used to do this thing where I would really struggle to format visual presentations.

0:27.0

And I would try to put together a mishmash of different fonts and filters from various aspects of social media

0:36.0

and then I would try and save the image and then I would try and repost it.

0:39.0

And it just never looked very good. But here is the answer to all of your problems. It's Canva for Teams.

0:45.0

Canva for Teams is a design platform that makes it easy for anyone, even me, to create stunning content in any format.

0:53.0

From social media posts to videos, presentations and websites. Ever since I found Canva for Teams, it has been easy to collaborate and design with my team.

1:02.0

And it makes the whole process so much more fluid, creative and fun.

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It means that I can use Canva to create a guest announcement, for instance, for How To Feel, which I do every week.

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And then I can communicate with my team directly on that platform. And they can suggest any ideas and just edit it directly.

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And it just makes it all so much more free-flowing. You can design anything with endless templates. Canva presentations, which means you can take your presentations to the next level with professionally designed presentation templates.

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And Canva whiteboards, you can capture your team's best ideas with infinite space to brainstorm and collaborate.

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You can turn inspiration into design in no time using premium fonts, photos, graphics and videos that add personality and edge to my team's content.

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You can also kickstart your creative process with Canva's AI-powered magic features, such as magic right, where all you do is enter a prompt and magic right generates a first draft.

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It's the perfect way to banish writers block, increase your output or get to a first draft fast.

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You can design and collaborate with Canva for teams. Right now, you can get a free 45-day extended trial when you go to Canva.me-slash-fail.

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