Elizabeth Day
British journalist, novelist and broadcaster; host of the podcast How To Fail; author of The Party, Failosophy and Friendaholic; writes the Substack newsletter DAYLIGHT.
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Infertility traps people in endless uncertainty and a sense of failure over every choice they made.
Their wordsThe world of infertility is steeped in the tyranny of maybe. First, you feel like a failure for not carrying a baby to term. Then you feel like a failure for not having chosen the right option.
↗Maybe Our Pain Was Not Without Purposetheelizabethday.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsNot because it was perfect. But because it marked a meaningful direction of travel.
↗Maybe Our Pain Was Not Without Purposetheelizabethday.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 7 days earlier
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Their wordsPurpose is not necessarily what you do. It’s what you bring to what you do.
↗On Finding Your Purposetheelizabethday.substack.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsIn my experience, locating one’s purpose is less an act of discovery (going in search of new lands) and much more an act of uncovering (revealing a truth that is already there) or recovering (reclaiming a quality that might have been lost or obscured during life’s many transitions).
↗On Finding Your Purposetheelizabethday.substack.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 4 weeks earlier
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Their wordsI miss the days when podcasting was an audio-only medium. There was a confessional intimacy to those recordings where neither the interviewer or the guest had to think about what they were wearing
- 8 weeks earlier
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Their wordsBut you cannot build an orchestra from a single instrument and expect it to play a human concerto. Because knowing is not just a matter of logic.
↗On C. J. Jung and The Limits of Reasontheelizabethday.substack.com
- 2 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThere was a coolness to the insouciance. Actors just didn’t care as much or have to try so hard.