Josh van Cuylenburg
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 20 Sep
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Yeah, okay.
And I think as I grew up, when your role model is perfect, you want to emulate that.
And I've sort of talked about this a bit on the show, but I made a lot of choices to sort of try and be school captain at the school and try and be really good at cricket.
And when the person you're trying to emulate is perfect, in inverted commas, you have no option but to fail every single time.
And so it wasn't until I got into my 20s that I started to sort of think you've got to find yourself here as I think a lot of people do in their 20s.
And I've talked about this a bit on the show and I drank a lot and partied a lot and I think I spent way too much of my 20s hungover, which meant that I was in a pretty down state trying to work that stuff out.
And so that's all kind of background to where I was when I wrote this book.
Wrote.
When I read this book.
What a reveal.
Yeah.
I'm actually, yeah, Alain de Botton.
And which will, I think, explain a bit.
But what really surprised me
in rereading this book is the fact that I actually saw myself in Marcel Proust.
And I mean that not in a grand way, because the way that I saw myself was all his failings.
So Marcel Proust was incredibly, as you learn about in this book, incredibly fragile and neurotic.
He was
had sort of perpetual feelings of being misunderstood and a failure whose opinions no one liked.
He had chronic asthma.
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