How to Fail: Everything I've ever learned from things going wrong

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Hardback How to Fail: Everything I've ever learned from things going wrong

Author: Day, Elizabeth

Publication year: 2019

Language: English

Media Hardback

Classification: 158.1092

Publisher: 4th Estate, 2019

Resource type: Physical

ISBN: 0008327327 9780008327323

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Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day's brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong. This is a book for anyone who has ever failed. Which means it's a book for everyone. If I have learned one thing from this shockingly beautiful venture called life, it is this: failure has taught me lessons I would never otherwise have understood. I have evolved more as a result of things going wrong than when everything seemed to be going right. Out of crisis has come clarity, and sometimes even catharsis.Part memoir, part manifesto, and including chapters on dating, work, sport, babies, families, anger and friendship, it is based on the simple premise that understanding why we fail ultimately makes us stronger. It's a book about learning from our mistakes and about not being afraid. Uplifting, inspiring and rich in stories from Elizabeth's own life, How to Fail reveals that failure is not what defines us; rather it is how we re