'Most failures can teach us something meaningful about ourselves if we choose to listen'
In Failosophy Elizabeth Day brings together all the lessons she has learned, from conversations with the guests on her award-winning How to Fail podcast, from stories shared with her by readers and listeners, and from her own life, and distils them into seven principles of failure. Practical, reassuring and inspirational, these principles offer a guide through life's rough patches.
From failed exams to romantic break-ups, from career setbacks to confidence crises, from navigating anxiety to surviving loss, Failosophy recognises, and celebrates, the fact that failure connects us all. It is what makes us human.
With insights from Malcolm Gladwell, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Lemn Sissay, Frankie Bridge, Nigel Slater, Emeli Sande, Alain de Botton, Mabel, Feared Cotton, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes, Andrew Scott and many, many more, Failosophy is the essential handbook for turning failure into success.
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Every day since 13 July 2008, I have thought about failure. INTRODUCTION
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(@4thEstateBooks, 1 October 2020, 112 pages, ebook, copy from the publisher via # NetGalley and voluntarily reviewed)
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I've read and really enjoyed the author's fiction, so this caught my interest when I got an email from NetGalley promoting the book. I am not a person who copes well with failure. I am a person who sees every failure as a million times worse than it really is and who obsesses over little detail to analyse what could have gone wrong and what should have gone better. This book sounded exactly what I needed. It was. I will check out the podcast at some point as I found this really interesting and insightful. The book is more down to earth than I expected and is more about accepting good and bad experiences, understanding you can't change the outcome or control everything. Very inspirational.
