A bank holiday bonanza of things to read, watch & listen to this weekend

Mar 28, 2024

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“I’m very aware that if I was Oliver Colman, I’d be earning a fuck of a lot more than I am.” Olivia Colman let rip on the gender pay gap earlier this week.

First up, because so many of you are new to The Shift, I thought I’d take the pay wall off a popular post I wrote six months ago. Let me know if it resonates.

Learning to give it 85%

sam baker

September 14, 2023

All my life I was led to believe you had to give 100%. And even that was slacking. What was important wasn’t to win (yeah, right) but to try. To know in your heart of hearts that you’d given it your all. Plus a bit. What mattered, what always mattered, was the effort you put in. That was the mantra everywhere you looked: at home, at school, on children’s TV, in books and the media. The gold star for effort, was worth far more than the 10/10 for accuracy. (Although obviously I wanted both.) If I sound like a nauseating ginger freckly swot that’s because I’m pretty sure I was.

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A bank holiday bonanza of things to read, watch & listen to this weekend

Learning to give it 85%

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