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Alastair Campbell on Self-Doubt

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Alastair Campbell on how self-doubt can be a remarkable source of energy and creativity.

Journalist, writer and broadcaster Alastair Campbell argues that self-doubt that leads to resolution of the doubts can be a remarkable source of energy and creativity.

Alastair Campbell on self-doubt. 

"Self-doubt that leads to resolution of the doubts can be a remarkable source of energy and creativity".

In the last of five Essays making The Case for Doubt, journalist and broadcaster Alastair Campbell, acknowledging his reputation as a hard man while Tony Blair's spokesman and strategist, admits that self-doubt has always been an essential part of his make-up. But reflecting on Galileo's assertion that self-doubt is 'the father of all invention', he argues that it should be a creative rather than a crippling experience. 

This ends the series The Case for Doubt, in which five contributors have argued that Doubt - though sometimes troubling - is meaningful and valuable, and not negative and weak.

First broadcast in April 2012.

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Series in which people discuss the idea that political, religious, and scientific doubt, even self-doubt, though sometimes troubling, is much more useful and valuable than fixed opinions and beliefs

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