Grace Beverley

The fact that you were at a point where you never needed to work again and have continuously just been like, great, well, how can I still put risk into my life?

I feel like that's probably where so much of the joy comes from.

I literally went back to my old school.

I did the birthday assembly this year.

And the one takeaway I wanted for people to have, because a lot of it I knew, I know the mentality of people in that school.

It was very academic.

It was very focused on, as you say, the A above everything.

And I only joined that school for two years.

And I came from a completely different type of school where the reason I even changed was because they'd never got the grades that I would need to get to the university I wanted to get to.

And so I kind of had this completely different mindset and I was absolutely gobsmacked by how

lots of people would not do things at all to avoid doing them badly, where actually failure had been such a key part of everything I'd done up to that date.

Like genuinely, I think about the fact a lot that nothing I have that you would look at me and think is prestigious

has come on the first try.

I didn't get into Oxford on the first try.

Literally like every single thing, my second business was like completely took off and I was flailing for a good amount of time.

Like yes, my first business had had success at the beginning, but being able to like evolve that and work out where that was even going took years and years and years.

Like every single thing,

that like I retook a level I retook GCSEs like every single thing that I thought was worth having I failed at the first time and I think that that when you give yourself permission to do that you stop looking at at anything as a kind of oh shit well I've got to do this and I've got to do this well actually I don't know if I'm going to do it well so maybe I won't do it at all and actually it has to be turned on this head so so when I was giving that

assembly, my main thing was like, I think people always say that fear of failure is holding you back.

I think that