“For me as a woman, that blew my mind because I’m constantly obsessing over my imperfections,” Day continues. “It’s taught me a lot about being born into privilege. I’m a very privileged person and I completely acknowledge that, but a white man is the most privileged of all.

“They had a mindset that hadn’t been taught by millennia of social conditioning that they weren’t good enough. They were born, many of them, with the idea that they were good enough. So that if something failed to go their way, they would have a way of processing it that would speak to a profound self-belief. It’s not all men, but it was something I noticed.”

Among the guests on the first season of How to Fail was the author Sebastian Faulks, who said something that has stuck with Day: “He said failure is how you see it. He gave the example that he could be really sad he failed to win an Italian literary prize, or he could be happy he got a trip to Italy out of it, and got to eat some nice food and meet some nice people.”

Remember that everyone fails

Faulks’ outlook is a good way to put a positive spin on failure, but it’s still a subject many of us find difficult to confront. Day’s advice is to remember that we all fail, which seems obvious but is actually a huge comfort.

“We are all going to fail in our life, that’s a fact. You might as well build up emotional resilience and you might as well confront failure so that the next time it happens, because it will happen, you feel better equipped, stronger and you can learn more from it.

“Why learning how to fail is the key to our liberation”