The School of Life On Failure, The School of Life
The School of Life On Failure, The School of Life
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The School of Life: On Failure
How to succeed at defeat

Author: The School of Life

Narrator: Rachel Lanning

Unabridged: 5 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 12/15/2022


Synopsis

A guide to the art of failing well—with actionable tips and a gentle approach. This is a hopeful, consoling, gentle book about failure. Our societies talk a lot about success, but the reality is that no one gets through life without failing – in small and usually also in large ways. Sometimes our failures are very obvious, at other times, we feel we have to conceal them out of shame. This book encourages us to accept the role that failure plays for all of us and to feel compassion for ourselves for the messes we can’t help but make as we go through our lives. Full of actionable tips on how to approach life's inevitable failures from small to large, this is the perfect volume for anyone who has ever gone through a breakup, suffered a career crisis, made enemies, fumbled a project, or wasted their time. (In other words: everyone.) There is nothing more human than failing—and nothing wiser and more necessary failing well.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Anastasiia on November 18, 2019

i think everyone should get this book on the day they are born. and then go through living keeping it by their side. i feel like this should become my go-to gift. smart, soothing, wise, philosophical, direct, daring, kind. truly a must-read for everyone!......more

Goodreads review by Valeriu on April 28, 2023

Recomandările echipei care a redactat volumul (Alain de Botton & Fiii) sînt străvechi și de bun simț. Le repetă clienților orice psihoterapeut (indiferent de natura terapiei). Sfaturile țin, desigur, de bagajul oricărui individ care dorește să se simtă bine cu el însuși. Sînt sfaturi rezonabile și n......more

Goodreads review by Vanya on October 28, 2019

“We aren’t ever done with the odd business of becoming that most extraordinary and prized of things, an emotionally mature person—or, to put in a simpler way, an almost grown-up adult.”- Alain De Botton The School of Life: An Emotional Education comprises essays on how to survive in the modern world......more