Charlie Mackesy

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718 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard May 2026 last heard 8 Jul

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How To Fail With Elizabeth Day · Charlie Mackesy – ‘Grief propelled me into work that saved me’ · 8 Jul 2026 podcast

Yeah.

And I had no idea.

I didn't need to know.

It wasn't my business to know.

But it was plenty for him to... There was a lot.

He said a lot.

I didn't know that for a long time.

I generally don't know a lot.

And I usually, in retrospective, if I do, go, oh, that's why I ran naked through a field.

You know, it's always that kind of thing where I have no idea what I'm doing until after this.

And similarly with this, this journalist for The Independent, just after the book came out, said, of course, you know, we understand what you're doing.

There are four different parts of you.

And I was sort of, oh.

Yes, you're right.

So I think, yeah, they are all different facets of maybe being human.

We can't be too clear about it, but generally speaking, we have different ways of operating and coping mechanisms and various things about us.

And those four characters are definitely how I have operated a lot of my life, I think.

What are their characteristics?

Well, the boy usually has all the questions, is anxious pretty much about everything and probably thinks he's in trouble or too ordinary.

or what happens if, or, you know, one day I'll discover I'm ordinary and all these things he feels.

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