English - Entertainer | January 11, 1986 -
CBT really helped me, and I would recommend it to anyone.
Rachel Riley
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I didn't realise until I did CBT that I was a perfectionist. Whenever you do anything, there are always going to be things that go wrong, it's never going to be 100 per cent perfect. Because of how I was, I'd focus on those bits and always see the negative in anything.
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You can have your opinions, and you can share them with your friends, but why would you go online to tell a stranger something random about their appearance? I don't get that.
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I've always been clumsy, the one who knocks glasses over.
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I have never been graceful, never been elegant.
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I like a challenge. I like doing things that scare me.
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My parents encourage me to save, but I do buy the odd thing that I wouldn't tell them about.
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I'm really lucky to be in the TV industry and to have a regular yearly contract. That gives me security.
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Without 'Countdown,' I'd probably still be a data analyst in London.
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My parents supported me through university, and after I graduated, I got a job as an analyst at a price comparison website called TotallyMoney.com.
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More than other subjects, there's a myth that you have to be an absolute genius to be good at maths and to enjoy it, so I think it's less accessible for people. Even the word 'maths' makes people screw their face up. They do the maths face.
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You sit men and women down and give them a maths test, and they will do fairly equally. Then you set up the same test, but with different people, and make them tick a box to say whether they are a man or a woman, and the women do significantly worse in the maths test than they did previously in a group set.
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