Moment 35 - Why You’re (Not) A Failure: Elizabeth Day

Uh Society's expectations of how your life is supposed to be going will fuck you up. And when I think about you know, you've written written this amazing book about called Philosophy about failure. I was thinking what is Objectively, look, what is failure? And um my conclusion was that

Failure is like a byproduct of social expectations. Um that's and as is success. So Could you talk to me a little bit about how social expectations Have

made you feel like a failure. Of course. Yeah. I realized I had to define failure. After I had launched a podcast called How to Fail and after I had written a book called How to Fail. And then I kept getting asked this very reasonable question. And I realized I'd never come up with a satisfying definition for me. So the definition I came up with in philosophy is that failure is what happens when life doesn't go according to plan. Which totally taps into what you've just asked me about. Because then you need to start to think, well, where does the plan come from?

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