Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong
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Beschreibung
‘Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure’ Stylist
‘A beautiful timely and humane book’ Alain de Botton
‘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, Fearne 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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I have strong disagreements with this book. There are some bits to take for me from the interviews she writes about, but I strongly disagree on her last chapter 'Do the failure principles really work?' which is only partly about this question and mostly an in depth and in detail description of her late miscarriage - trigger warning for this part of the book - and how she applied her formula of failing after this. You are not "failing" at getting or staying pregnant. You didn't study enough, you failed the exam. You didn't train enough and failed to finish the marathon. You didn't promote your book enough and failed to make the sales numbers. But you didn't fail at anything, if you miscarry. She claimed her doctor had dangerous language discribing a miscarriage as 'like a heavy period' but I'm more afraid she might teach women that their feeling of being a failure is validated because they are failures. I almost couldn't finish the conclusion because this was so disturbing for me. -- roughly 80 pages, because of graphics and quote pages almost every second page.
Beschreibung
‘Elizabeth Day has revolutionised the way we see failure’ Stylist
‘A beautiful timely and humane book’ Alain de Botton
‘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, Fearne Cotton, Meera Syal, Dame Kelly Holmes, Andrew Scott and many, many more, Failosophy is the essential handbook for turning failure into success.
Buchinformationen
Beiträge
I have strong disagreements with this book. There are some bits to take for me from the interviews she writes about, but I strongly disagree on her last chapter 'Do the failure principles really work?' which is only partly about this question and mostly an in depth and in detail description of her late miscarriage - trigger warning for this part of the book - and how she applied her formula of failing after this. You are not "failing" at getting or staying pregnant. You didn't study enough, you failed the exam. You didn't train enough and failed to finish the marathon. You didn't promote your book enough and failed to make the sales numbers. But you didn't fail at anything, if you miscarry. She claimed her doctor had dangerous language discribing a miscarriage as 'like a heavy period' but I'm more afraid she might teach women that their feeling of being a failure is validated because they are failures. I almost couldn't finish the conclusion because this was so disturbing for me. -- roughly 80 pages, because of graphics and quote pages almost every second page.