Matt Haig: How to Fail

We tend to look at successful people and think they've never known failure. But everyone has failed at something, and the most successful people have often failed more than others.

In How to Fail, journalist and author Elizabeth Day probes her guests' deepest failures to reveal how they led to their brightest successes. In this February 2021 episode, Matt Haig, bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive and The Midnight Library, discusses how failing to talk about his severe depression sooner inhibited his recovery and how writing helped him cope. Going through mental illness and struggles doesn't make you weak, it can even make you stronger, more empathetic, and resilient.

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