Apologies for being off topic but her video reflecting on the Oxford rejection came up in my auto play and it’s struck me that she said “If I hadn’t been rejected then I maybe wouldn’t have faced rejection yet” and that she applied for her previous uni subject because she, as part of getting over Oxford, thought English was simply the wrong subject. Fair enough but it just struck me that her two big “failures” in her eyes are things she’s been able to supplement with the same thing but different? For example, her being rejected from Oxford simply meant she went to a different university, but she will still get a degree, same with her first year results she’s now switch degree courses and is getting firsts. I’m not saying she was wrong to do these things, but just in terms of the “golden child who has never done anything wrong” persona there isn’t a large amount of permanent consequences there? Like, I was job hunting for eight months before finding my job and it was the difference in stakes of each of those rejections that hit me, and I’m just not sure if Ruby is as ready for that as she maybe thinks she is because she was so brilliant in coming back from all of her hardships, which these are the two she would say are. This is just simply something I found really interesting , and again not critiquing anything she’s done more her attitude towards it possibly down the line
Edit: she did say failing is a blessing in disguise that she wishes she’d had experience of in school to learn from, but I feel that’s semi fallen by the way side in the year since that video in 2019
Addition to my post above (it’s not letting me edit for some reason) but I wanted to clarify I’m not saying she has to fail or wallow in it etc, as I said it’s more her attitude, and approach/understanding that there is a chance she may not get everything she wants and she’s not always going to be able to supplant these things in a relatively short space of time