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1. “Was and I still am, I still overthink things if I'm to be honest. To work in the medium that I work in is a little bit strange because I don't really belong in this medium. When I say this medium, you know, front of house as a presenter because I've got a really thin skin and I overthink everything. So when I read something negative, whether that's on social media, whether that's a newspaper review, whether that's a journalist that has written something which I don't like or which doesn't seem true, I take it really personally, which is kind of really strange because I should have been able to overcome that after 20 years. And I'm almost there, Stephen. I'm almost there. But one of the reasons I'm happy to talk about it is because I know I'm not alone. I know there are many, many people out there who are high achievers, who've done brilliant things in life, but are still burdened with their own voice.”

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2. “And actually, I wish if I could go back in time, I wish I could kind of shake a young me on the shoulders and go, just don't overthink things. Just chill out a little bit.”

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3. “To conform, because if you think about how if you take the schooling model and the education model, it is kind of about conforming because exams are all about getting the correct grades. We're learning to a specific model that has been set by the government. And it's sort of painting by numbers when you think about education. And if you don't hit those targets, then you've effectively failed the system. And for me, you can hear by accent, you know, I'm posh. I went to a private school. Mom and dad worked really hard to send me to a private school. And actually, there was a great guilt that the fact that they had worked so hard to be able to afford to send me there. And yet I still failed. So I think actually a lot of that voice was internal.”

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