Coming Soon… Fail Better with David Duchovny (Official Trailer)
2024-04-16 00:02:16
<p>To be human is to fail – period. And not just to fail once, but to fail a lot. As the author Samuel Beckett said: “Fail again. Fail better.” This saying means a lot to me and my family – so much so that my daughter got a tattoo of it. Why are we, and so many others, so deeply concerned by failure? And if it’s something we all do so often, why are we so afraid of it – especially those of us here in win-at-all-costs America? In this podcast, I sit down with successful, thoughtful people like Ben Stiller, Bette Midler, Sean Penn and more to talk about failure – or what they labeled “failure,” but what was really an unparalleled opportunity for growth and revelation. I even want to delve into my own hardest moments, when I wrestled with setbacks, shame, and fear. We’ll still fail again. And again. But maybe if we fail better, we’ll feel better -- and maybe if we can all laugh together in failure, that's a start.</p>
Okay, I'm starting to record something for you, um, I just gotta say off the bat, I'm so bad with anything technological, I've spent the last ten minutes fucking this up, and uh, oh man, it's so frustrating to me.
Alright, alright, I think I got everything working. now, you're hearing my voice, right? We're making a podcast, it's called Fail Better, and I'm David Duchovny.
Why am I making a podcast? The best answer I can come up with is that I felt like I've been failing my entire life, so on some level, I can speak from plenty of experience. I've had personal failures, like we all have, I've had professional failures, like we all have. I have things that I've been called as an actor, I had a high-profile divorce, I had a magical mystery tour through rehab, we don't have to get into specifics now, but stay tuned, maybe we wills.
But I'm no expert, and I don't claim to be, so. this is a journey of discovery for me, and hopefully for you as well.
There's a sense in which failure looms over us, and I want to know what's good about that, and I want to know what's bad about that, what's inhibiting about that. What is pushing us forward to be better, and what is holding us back in shame, that's what I want to get into. That would be a wonderful result of this, if even a little bit of shame in our lives could fall away. I'm David Duchovny, and this is Fail Better, a show where failure, not success, shapes who we are. Join me with Ben Stiller, Ed Midler, Sean Penn, Dr.
Gabor Mate, tennis legend, Brad Gilbert, and more.
Fail Better is available May 7th, wherever you get your podcasts, from Limonada Media.
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