Jamie Oliver says being 'conceptually thick' led to collapse of his restaurant empire

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00:00whatever is it you're trying to do like it might not have failed because it was all wrong sometimes

00:05i failed because i was too early and people weren't ready sometimes i failed because i was

00:09too late sometimes interesting sometimes i failed and i got all the hard bits right yeah and i got

00:14the basics wrong because i spent a lifetime refusing to accept any responsibility around

00:22numbers and maths which goes back to school and like you know like that's it's my issue not not

00:27the school's issue like you know i was in the worst group for maths i didn't pass maths at school

00:31like you know like within conceptually within that yeah i'm thick when you know like that i have a

00:36negative view of myself when it comes to maths so like you know when i lost my my restaurants you

00:42know all the hard stuff we got right all the stuff that most people struggle getting right we got

00:47right like we were really good at the hard stuff and like it was really the basics but and through

00:54my inability like i know it sounds like i'm being hard on myself but i recognize it now

01:00through you know i my inability to um exercise the demons of light actually like maybe you're not

01:06at that and actually you can retrain that

01:09so you know and i've had to feel that this is not something about it and then i think i like it's like i'm fine

01:12but i think i'm counting on my breathing so i'm really sorry for the time but i think i was

01:17a part of my recommendation here for the good comprehension from um to i think it was very nice i'm going to

01:20understand that as well i see it's a great problem so i think i know that i've got to be a

01:24so i'm just gonna try it i know that i can can help you to put it in the background

01:26so i feel like i feel like you know i feel like it's just a bit like that i don't SoundFactory

01:28because i feel like you know i don't know i'm sure it actually feels like i know that i feel like i think i have a lot of