Elizabeth Day: 'Being at peace with failure means I have very few regrets'

Her podcast, How To Fail with Elizabeth Day, has a cult following. Here, she reflects on her own failures, and the lessons she has learned

Elizabeth Day's new book brings together all the lessons she has learnt from her life

Every day since July 13, 2018, I have thought about failure. My own and other people’s. The failures that define us and the ones that seem stupid in hindsight. Everything from failed marriages to failed driving tests.

I can name the date so precisely because that is the day on which I launched a podcast called How To Fail. In fact, it was called How To Fail With Elizabeth Day because with near-perfect comic timing, I had failed to name it properly, having earlier failed to do my research, which would have uncovered another podcast already in existence called almost the same thing.