That’s Men: Compassion for oneself an antidote to the drug of praise

Getting better and better sounds like a great idea, but here’s the problem with it: when do you actually get to enjoy what you do?

Mon, Nov 30, 2015, 15:00

Padraig O'Morain

An English teacher called Mr Murray set me off on the road to journalism and to writing by reading out an essay of mine to our first-year class in Naas CBS.

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