Moment 35 - Why You’re (Not) A Failure: Elizabeth Day
Guests: Elizabeth Day
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§01Failure depends on the plan being used to judge a life
Elizabeth Day defines failure as what happens when life does not go according to plan, then asks whose plan it is. The distinction shifts attention from an apparently objective verdict to the standards a person has absorbed. The host’s opening suggestion that success and failure reflect social expectations becomes a question about whether those expectations describe what someone genuinely wants.
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