Josh van Cuylenburg

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The Imperfects · Our Phone Odyssey Begins · 19 Jul 2026 podcast

The book that I brought is How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton.

And I'm quite nervous about this segment for a few reasons.

One is that I, to be honest, I don't really read that much.

And it's been a long time since I've like read a book, which is kind of shameful to say.

And so this book changed my life quite a long time ago.

And it was really interesting to pick it up and read it because I can't believe what a different person I am now.

So reading it now, I don't think it would have really any impact on me.

But at that point in my life, it was really profound and it really shaped me.

who I was and now looking back at the lesson I learnt, I can see how many things and how many things through this show can be sort of taken back to the point of reading this book and I hadn't even realised.

So it's kind of quite profound for me to see it because I probably read it 10 to 15 years ago, I think.

Yeah, true.

Yeah, absolutely.

And I'm also a bit nervous because a lot of it is about you and me, Hugh.

And so in going through this, I hope that it's not... I hope it all comes out right because it feels like some delicate areas to go.

So...

Yeah, but to give a bit of background, I think it's probably best to start with me and then I can go to the book.

I was shocked rereading.

It put me back in a state that I was and I was really surprised at how low my self-esteem was in my mid to early 20s.

And the kind of things I used to say to myself a lot being a sort of a waste of potential talent, a sort of perpetual loser.

I wrote down here the other day, one who overthought everything and under committed to everything else.

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