Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong.How To Fail
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, reveals that failure is not what defines us; rather it is how we respond to it that shapes us as individuals.How to Fail
Because learning how to fail is actually learning how to succeed better. And everyone needs a bit of that.
This audiobook includes an extra chapter, exclusively available in the audiobook, called ‘Everything I’ve Learned About Failure’.
Frida
2020-12-09
I love Day and have been listening to her podcast for years. However, I did not immediately fall in love with this book. It is undoubtedly a well written piece of literature but if you, like myself, are looking for something a bit more riveting, this may not be the book for you. This being said, after a somewhat slow start, the book entails some incredibly profound chapters which made reading it worthwhile.