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Elizabeth Day

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first: 2021-04-19
most recent: 2021-04-19
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“I mean, you mentioned working out earlier. I definitely find exercises a helpful way of doing that. And that's something, again, I never thought I was good at sport. And I translated that wrongly as being like someone who doesn't like exercise. Until my 30s, really, until I went through all this stuff, divorce, all that sort of stuff, and I needed to feel strong in myself. But that started with feeling strong in my body. And I realized that it was just an incredibly helpful way of being in my body and being out of my head. And it was just such a relief to find that.”
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“And don't get me wrong, I love my brain and I'm happy that I have thoughts, but it's that thing of understanding when they're running away with themselves, when they're in control of you. It is the exercise of a life It really is”
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“And we're taught to think we need to use it to be good at exams to get ahead, to get a good job. Like that's all thought, isn't it? That's like the exercise of your brain.”
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“And it was an unbelievably oppressive, grief stricken thought. And after a few more weeks of it, he was like, I just can't live like this. I can't live like this. And so he challenged his brain to come up with the different thought. And each morning he would wake up and he would still think Annie died, and he died. And he'd still be crying. But he added something to that sentence and he added, yes, but he also lived. And in that differently expressed sentiment was 21 years of memories of a father and son who were best friends. And that was what enabled him to carry on living. And if he can do that in that situation, I sure as hell can do it when someone criticizes me on Instagram. Was really helpful lesson”
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“As you know, the premise of all meditation is that you can observe your thoughts. Who's doing the observing? That's you. That's you. Why would you need thoughts? You don't need to communicate yourself, so your thoughts are just being produced by your brain constantly. And I found that really helpful, the idea that... Once you realize that, you can train your brain to think differently and to replace negative thoughts with positive ones as much as you're able. So he gave this incredibly moving example. His son Ali died at the age of 21 during a routine operation. And in the aftermath of Ali's death, Mo would wake up every morning with tears streaming down his cheeks. And his first thought would be Allie died.”
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“But that's what you were saying earlier about ambition being an external driver really feeds into one of the most profound things I've ever learned. And he has a lot to say about expectation versus reality. So if we can manage our expectations of life, so if they're equal to or less than our perception of events and how they turn out, then we can be happy or contented. And he was the one who really brought it home to me that we are not our worst thoughts, that our thoughts are produced by our brain as organic matter in the same way that blood is pumped around our body by our heart. We wouldn't think we were defined by our blood, so why would we think that we are our thoughts? But actually...”
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“Unknown. That for me is like true romance. And a relationship Or a business is not a failure because it ends again. Like you could have learned so much. You could have learned what you needed to know and therefore you can evolve and grow. And as you say, the act of finding something, what if it's like inside you? You don't need to something you love to do should be something you love to do without having to get on this quest. Yeah, exactly.”
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“Oh my gosh, I could not agree more. And I also passion Is such an unhelpful word. It's that thing of like, oh, did you feel passionate? Did you feel this sexual, insane sexual chemistry? Did you fall in love at first sight? And I'm like, hang on a second. What you're saying there is, did you feel deeply unsettled and chaotic? Because that's what passion is like a disruptive force. I'm like, I don't want to feel, I don't want to feel unstable and chaotic. I want to feel safe.”
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“Which is so mind blowingly good and also connects to that whole thing, that bullshit about soulmates, because there's that belief that a soulmate will complete you. Now, what you're saying there, you're saying that you're incomplete in and of yourself and that there's only one true way to formulate all of that. I hate that question.”
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“I know exactly. Yeah, and that's that thing that I always fear if I tackle my self-worth and I cure myself, will I just have no drive?”
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“Myself, in the sense that I still struggle with self-worth. And I realize that that probably sounds really noisating for me to sit here in this lovely place being interviewed for this fabulous podcast, drinking my cup of middle class green tea. Like it sounds absurd for me to say that. And also self-indulgent. But that's me being really honest. Like I've just got that's something that I really struggle with, like just feeling that I'm enough.”
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“It's like a strange thing to say to someone, but you know, you are well, I think I'm good at connecting with people. And that's something that I... Really cherish because that's where all the good stuff lies for me. Like, I love having a conversation like this. On such a real level With someone and connecting. Heavens me, like this is introversion heaven. It's like, I don't want to be at a big party, like trying to have this conversation with you. That would be stressful. So I'm confident. There and you'll notice that those are all things that I do. I'm not hugely confident about”
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“Yes, in certain things. So I'm confident that I can write. I'm now confident that I can podcast. I can do a good podcast.”
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“Yes, isn't it? And although Actually, an introvert, but I've successfully learned how to be extrovert and how to pretend I'm confident when I don't feel it and all of that sort of stuff. I've realized that I'm also pretty resilient when my world shrinks. So I think I'm going to be okay.”
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“And I was spending a lot of time trying to nurture these other ones that were less meaningful to me that required more of it because they weren't as generous in their acceptance of me. So actually my fear of loneliness has slightly lessened now.”
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“My core, my nucleus of people is very, very small. And actually, if I've got Justin and my best friend, I'm good, I'm good. And beyond that, you know, my closest friends, like I actively want to see them. But I realize that I was just spending a lot of time not nurturing those friendships because I knew that I would be able to step back into them and I knew that I would be accepted because that's the level of great friendship, isn't it? Like you're just always welcome back.”
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“Interestingly, the global pandemic has been so tough and so much tougher for so many people than it has been for me in myriad ways. One of the unexpected side benefits is that I've really got comfortable with my fear of loneliness because overnight my diary was totally empty. So I had no social engagements. I couldn't see friends and it made me realize that I didn't really want to see the majority of people that I was going to see. Like I'd said yes to social situations that I didn't really want to go to, but I felt like I should and I didn't want to offend someone by not letting them down. That's still the people pleased around me. And having the freedom to choose who I wanted to invest time in was hugely beneficial for me. I realize actually that”
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“And also, probably because you've had to be incredibly self sufficient. Like the definition of a self starter, you've had to rely on yourself so much that for someone else to step in and be like, I've got this for you.”
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“Yes, completely. But separate to you getting feedback if your partner is emotional. And he's crying at a film or is sad about something, so move to tears or feeling anxious. Yes”
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“Listen, I need this, or I feel this. And sometimes he'll need time. I hope he doesn't like me talking. He's so private. But sometimes he'll need times like think it through. And sort of strategize it and like digest it. And I always know it's never that he's forgotten. He'll come back and he'll be like, right, I agree. And this is the action that we're going to take. And it's amazing. And I love that. I really love that. I used to think it was unromantic. It's not at all. It's the most romantic thing because I'm being taken really seriously.”
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“And so that's what I thought I needed. But now actually, in my relationship, I feel really safe. So for me, it is quality time. It's still words of affirmation, but quality time is super important. And I now realize that Justin is very good at taking feedback. That's because that's the business brain, isn't it? So I don't need to sugarcoat something. I can say.”
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“Yes, I'm totally. So I was totally words of affirmation when we took the test. But I think that's because I'd come off a really bad patch of relationships where I didn't feel safe in those relationships. So I was constantly looking for something to paper over the cracks. And for me, that papering came in the form of compliments. That was like the easiest thing to ask for.”
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“Oh my god, you're literally like the same person That's yeah, and I was when he took that, I was really surprised. It was got early days of our relationship and he hadn't given me the impression of needing touch. And then once I knew that, I was like, oh, that's lovely because I like that too.”
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“At some point. And I made him take the quiz, and it was really helpful. He was acts of service. But he was also Yeah, there you go. It's what you do.”
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“Honestly. And he said this thing, and I kept bringing it up, and I was like, if I don't hear from you for like three days, that's really upsetting to me and it's not going to work if that continues. He's like, okay, I hear that. He's like, for me, text is a very cheap form of communication. And it's something you do when you don't really care. And I do it a lot for work. So for me, it's much more important to spend time together. Anyway.”
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“Honestly, you're so right. I'll set you up. I'll set you up. I'm 85 year old. But communication. Is the be all and end all for me. And when I met Justin, who is now my husband, it was a really difficult learning process for me because he had a very different mode of communication because he is a founder and a CEO and he didn't have time to text me. And I fucking love text. I'm a writer. That's what I hate a phone call. I've had to get used to it now in the global pandemic, but I hate a phone call. I always think I've done something wrong. Whereas Justin was always like, why would I take time to text you when I can just call you and convey the necessary information?”
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“Okay, so I'm your wife, and I say, I completely understand that because you're having a really heavy week at work. I'd really like to go to the park because I really want to spend quality time with you. And it would make me feel sad if we didn't do that. Then what would you say?”
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“I'm a people pleaser, so I don't know. This is never going to work But the knock-on effect of that, basically what he was saying is I'm honest. And I will tell you if I don't want to do something. So if I say yes, that yes is really meaningful. And that's such a weight off my mind because I'm not having to second guess whether he really means it. When he says he'll come for lunch with my family or whatever. I know that he's invested in that. So actually.”
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“Just don't do things you don't want to do. This is so interesting. So my now partner husband is amazing and he's a CEO and he said to me in the early days of our relationship, I never do anything I don't want to do. And I was like, selfish.”
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“So interesting because in your professional life as well, you're in a position where you need to know the answers. Someone will come to you for a decision and you need to know. You need to be like a benign dictator and just be like, right, this, that. And therefore, do you think that in your personal life, You don't think it's okay to say, I don't know.”
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“What your needs are, it's so important. It's everything. I'm very interested in what you just said there. So I'm going to come back to that question you asked me. The fact that you believe you might need different modes of communication in business and in person relationships.”
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“So I had to do a lot of work on myself. It was part of the reason. It wasn't the whole reason. There was a whole pile of other stuff that I can't go into because it involves someone else. But that was definitely like I do think that when a relationship ends, you have to look at yourself and be really honest about how you played into that dysfunctional dynamic.”
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“It meant that I was extremely conflict avoidant. So instead of saying how I felt about something, I would turn it inwards and be silent and then get mildly depressed So that's a difficult person to be with. They don't seem difficult at all because they're like, look, I've cooked you dinner and I've got all your favorite things and I've come up with this perfectly thoughtful gift for Christmas. But that's all like distraction. It's all like just don't look at the mess I actually am inside.”
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“Never ask for a pay rise, Stephen. I mean, which is actually makes me feel slightly sick now looking back because I am a feminist and I do believe women should ask for the pay that they deserve. But I didn't. I was too intimidated. And ultimately, I think people pleasing can start from a desire to be nice and to think of others. And that's a really beautiful thing. But taken to its extreme, which is where I would put myself, it actually becomes very selfish because you never take the time to know who you truly are. And that leads you into situations and relationships that you shouldn't be in because you're not fully giving yourself. You're giving a version of perfection to someone that is never fully real. So I never felt able to show who I really was. And that state of mind I got married in. And little wonder that it ended.”
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“Eight years of that job, that I was never going to be moved anywhere. I did ask, I asked for like I was doing too much where I was. Why would they want to move me? I was providing them with an excellent service where I was. I was making myself too indispensable. And I was absolutely refusing to complain.”
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“No, because I was like, who am I unless I'm making someone else happy, unless I'm being someone else's perfect partner, unless I'm trying to second-guess what they might want for dinner? And when they ask me, like, where do I want to go for lunch? I don't know, where would you like to go? That was my life. It was ridiculous. And it manifested itself at work as well. I was always the person who said yes to overtime, yes to the commissions that no one else wanted because I thought eventually I'll be rewarded. And I got a staff feature writer job at the observer a Sunday newspaper in the UK when I was 29. And I was the youngest feature writer there. And so I felt really intimidated. And so part of my constantly saying yes and showing willing was to try and fit in and be accepted and actually you just become an easily exploitable asset. And I realized after”
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“I think in understanding that. But as a result, I always thought that my worth as a person was predicated on keeping other people happy. So I got into a series of long-term monogamous relationships from the age of 19 to 36. Like that, the biggest gap between those relationships was like a month.”
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“Yes. Well, I'm a reformed people, please. I guess you used to be. No, I don't give a fuck what you think, Stephen Andrew. Okay. I really do. Yes. So I like many women of my age was raised in the 80s and early 90s in a culture where it was still very, very gender stereotyped. I mean, we've come so far in the last...”
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“Deeply, deeply personal to who I was and I felt an attack on my integrity and a complete misreading of what I was trying to do. And I tweeted something that was really calm and that was like, you know, I refute this for these reasons. And it was an excellent lesson in how sometimes it is important to stand up for something. I had an outpouring of incredible support from other people who I'd never met, which meant a great deal to me. The journalist in question had the grace afterwards to apologize, but they changed the wording and the online piece. And if I hadn't sent out that tweet, there would be no record of it having happened. And these things are really important to call out sometimes. So I think when it's an attack on the integrity of who you are and what you do, then sometimes it is worth drawing breath and saying something calmly and just stating your position.”
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“And I was like, that sits so badly with me because infertility and miscarriages are not a mishap. For people who experience it, it's a tragedy over which they have no control. And the idea that I was exploiting it to make a full-time career out of it with non-stop webinars, I've never done a webinar in my life, by the way, was so insulting to me because I had a career apart from that and before that. And it's that I choose to use my platform to talk about something that a great deal of people feel a great deal of misplaced shame over. And that was one example. In fact, the only one I can think of where I did respond because it was so...”
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“Yeah, you know, I had a really interesting experience on Twitter recently, and it's fascinating because I think I care less about Twitter because I don't feel... As myself on Twitter. I suppose because I'm super conscious of how you can send out an ill thought tweet one day and like lose everything the next. Instagram rightly or wrongly just feels safer. It feels more like a warm bath whereas Twitter's like a kind of shower of hail a lot of the time but recently on Twitter someone messaged me saying, oh, that thing that was in the Times magazine about you was so unfair. And I hadn't read it. And I then went and looked at the article and it was an interview with another author and the journalist had said, had compared this person to me and a couple of other people and said, you know, now there's this trend. I'm paraphrasing for people to use their mishaps and exploit them and turn them into full-time careers with non-stop webinars and Instagram lives. And she said, like, like Elizabeth Day with infertility.”
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“Exactly. And actually, just flipping the switch and being like, no, the world is abundant and everyone's success can mirror your own. Like, and if you give and if you come at life from a generous place, then hopefully that will feed back to you. So those are my tactics.”
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“and also to try and practice the art of generosity and to believe in abundance because I think a lot of my mindset around competitiveness or envy is because I believe in a scarcity of resources and I believe success is scarce and I believe money is scarce and love is scarce. And we all have to compete for it. Yeah.”
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“Anyway, so that was just like I went down a rabbit hole of looking at the reviewer's Instagram and all of that sort of stuff, which is terrible. Anyway, I know I shouldn't go down these rabbit holes of self-loathing. And most of the time I'm able not to, but just occasionally, if I'm feeling low or particularly sensitive that day, it will affect me. And my tactic for protecting myself is absolutely if you said, as you said, to unfollow and mute, to curate my feed, to keep my phone on airplane mode in the morning. So my phone is not the first thing I look at. When I'm writing, I put my phone on airplane mode as well and I find it a real relief.”
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“And I spoke to her about it, and she was like, okay, where I would go with it is what pain is that person in that they've lashed out in this way. And that's very helpful because it encourages you to feel compassion instead of got at and anger. I mean, that's one tiny example. Another example was philosophy got reviewed in a couple of places. And I, you know, I am really proud of that book, but it's a physically small book. I mean, it's got a lot of good content in it, don't get me wrong. And as you know, it's hard to make big ideas accessible. But I did not expect it to get reviewed in the national press. But it did. And it got reviewed by people who wanted to find fault with it, who did not like the fact that I seemed to be exploiting failure for my own success, which is absolutely not the case. I want to share the stuff that I've”
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“Yes, and it's ridiculous. It's wonderful. And I saw other people had liked that comment. I was like, oh my God, they hate me too. And basically, I just have to sit with it for a bit. And it helps me to talk about it, even though I sound completely doolally. But I do, I'm lucky enough to have an incredible resource in my husband who is just not on social media at all. And so is a very kind of sane mind bring to it. And my best friend, who's a psychotherapist?”
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“Harness that settles around me for a day of feeling unsettled and a bit worried and anxious and other people thinking that. Is there a whole group of people out there that are like meeting up behind closed doors to discuss how awful I am?”
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“Person, I feel really bad about it. What can I do? Should I reply? I go through that. That's the first place I go. And then I tell myself, no, leave it 24 hours. Leave it 24 hours before you say anything. And then I just feel I have this like.”
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“Okay, two recent examples. One is that I went a few weeks ago, I went on a lockdown walk with a friend of mine who I hadn't seen for over a year, socially distanced. It was my daily exercise I was allowed to do with one person from another household. And I posted a picture of us socially distanced in a park on Instagram, being like, you know, this was really good for my mental health, such an enjoyable walk. And someone commented saying, I can't, this is so irresponsible of you to post this because hospitals are overwhelmed with COVID patients and you're encouraging people just to go out and about. And I was like, hang on a second. That's where I go with it. Oh my God, I've done something wrong. I've done something wrong. And these poor NHS doctors who are working and I've just kicked them in the face metaphorically. And I have this process of like, I've done something wrong. I'm a terrible.”
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“But the way to answer that truly honestly, I'm still a huge work in progress in that respect because I have the capacity to be undone by criticism. I take it really, really personally.”
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