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Hello darling heart and welcome to this 160th episode of the drink less, live better podcast. This is the podcast that helps

you to see that drinking less doesn't need to be stressful, lonely, or boring. I'm your host, Sarah Williamson, and I decided

to have a year alcohol free as a little life experiment and haven't looked back. I'm a best selling author, expert speaker,

and life coach. I'm here to champion you with your alcohol free or drink less adventures. Give me a follow over on Instagram

at drink less live better, and head to the website drink less live better dot com, where you will be able to sign up to the

5 day drink less experiment, find blog posts, and you can choose to join the email club where I share resources, wisdom, insights,

and glimmers of hope and joy. I hope you enjoyed this episode. Let's get straight to it. Here is one thing I was wrong about

and it is only an example of one thing. I've been wrong about many many things. It was in my 3rd year of university I finally

got fully invested in my education. Yeah. Yeah. You'd have thought I'd have got the hang of it before then, but I actually

hadn't. I had had a roller coaster through my education. I was absolutely average, perhaps slightly under, all the way through

school. I did not gain loads of confidence and self esteem as a child from my educational experience. Well, you know, it was

the eighties. My GCSE maths took me 4 attempts to get. My a levels were an unmitigated disaster. I sometimes look back and

don't really quite know how I got into university apart from, let's say, it was the nineties, I did have the most astonishing

careers teacher just at the end of my schooling, and he was the one who said to me, are you going to go to university? I don't

think I'd considered it before then. Anyway, I got to university. My first university course was amazing in the 1st semester

and absolutely horrific in the 2nd semester. If you're interested in hearing about it at some point, ask me. My second semester

story. It's a cracker. Anyway, I changed universities. I changed courses. In my 3rd year at university, I suddenly realized

things were going incredibly well. I was working on a piece of group work, and this was going to contribute to one of my final

marks of the year, and things were looking spectacularly good. I really was on target for a 1st class degree. This particular

piece of group work that was happening wasn't quite going in the way that it could have. And I was having a tutorial with

my professor, just one to 1, and we were talking about what was going wrong with this particular piece of work and the group

of people I was working with. I was clearly getting frustrated and cross with the input that others were not putting in. Professor

Peter Howard said to me, Sarah, would you allow me to make a comment at this point? And I said, yeah. Yeah, of course. Go

ahead. That's what I'm here for. And he said, Sarah, you don't suffer falls gladly, do you? And I said, Yeah, exactly right.

I don't suffer fools gladly and I'm surrounded by them at this moment. People are really holding me back. They just aren't

putting the work into this group piece of, this group assignment, and this might affect my grade. It is really, really getting

my goat. And he said, hang hang on a moment. You you don't suffer fools gladly, Sarah, and this is my criticism of you. And

he let it hang, and I sat there with my mouth open. Up until that point I had always seen 'not suffering falls gladly' as

a proud boast, as something to feel very pleased and smug about. Like what? Are we superior to somebody else? I really don't

think that is actually the case. I started to cry, and he very kindly left the room. I remember standing there looking out

of his office window and feeling furious with other people, with him, but most of all with myself. Of course, he was entirely

right. Of course, it was a criticism, and, of course, I needed to hear that. This was probably my first experience of having

some of my harder edges softened off. Although it sounded as he'd delivered something quite harsh, he hadn't done it in a

particularly unkind way. He'd just done it in a totally truthful way. None of us are fools. We're all doing what we can. There

doesn't need to be any suffering, fools gladly. The more of us who are tolerant, loving, and kind to each other, the better,

of course. Thank you for listening in today. Come back again next week. If you fancy leaving a podcast review, that'd be cracking.

And, PS, I believe in you.