How to fail : everything I've ever learned from things going wrong / Elizabeth Day.
Publisher: London : 4th Estate, 2020Description: 341 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volume001: BDZ0039943106ISBN: 9780008327354 (pbk.) :Subject(s): Day, Elizabeth, 1978- | Self-realization | Failure (Psychology) | Self-actualization (Psychology) | Psychology | Self-help & personal development | Autobiography: arts & entertainment | United Kingdom, Great Britain | 21st century, c 2000 to c 2100 | Biography: arts & entertainment | Biography: general | Advice on careers & achieving success | Assertiveness, motivation & self-esteem | Gender studies: women & girls | Media, entertainment, information & communication industriesDDC classification: 158.1092 LOC classification: BF637.S4Summary: A painfully honest, insightful celebration of things that have gone wrong, based on the author's popular podcast. Reveals how failure need not define us, but our response to it shapes us as individuals. Fourth Estate sponsor series two and three of the podcast. ***Elizabeth Day's new book Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong is available to pre-order now.***Inspired by her hugely popular podcast,How To Failis 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 Failreveals that failure is not what defines us; rather it is how we respond to it that shapes us as individuals.Because learning how to fail is actually learning how to succeed better. And everyone needs a bit of that.| Item type | Current library | Collection | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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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 respond to it that shapes us as individuals.
Because learning how to fail is actually learning how to succeed better. And everyone needs a bit of that.
Originally published: 2019.
A painfully honest, insightful celebration of things that have gone wrong, based on the author's popular podcast. Reveals how failure need not define us, but our response to it shapes us as individuals. Fourth Estate sponsor series two and three of the podcast. ***Elizabeth Day's new book Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong is available to pre-order now.***Inspired by her hugely popular podcast,How To Failis 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 Failreveals that failure is not what defines us; rather it is how we respond to it that shapes us as individuals.Because learning how to fail is actually learning how to succeed better. And everyone needs a bit of that.
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