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This is a hopeful, consoling, gentle book about failure. Our societiestalk a lot about success, but the reality is that no one gets throughlife without failing – in small and usually also in large ways.Sometimes our failures are very obvious, at other times, we feel wehave to conceal them out of shame. This book encourages us toaccept the role that failure plays for all of us and to feel compassionfor ourselves for the messes we can’t help but make as we gothrough our livesThis is a hopeful, consoling, gentle book about failure. Our societies talk a lot about success, but the reality is that no one gets throughlife without failing – in small and usually also in large ways.Sometimes our failures are very obvious, at other times, we feel wehave to conceal them out of shame. This book encourages us toaccept the role that failure plays for all of us and to feel compassionfor ourselves for the messes we can’t help but make as we gothrough our livesOur societies talk a lot about how to succeed: we’d end up so muchwiser and calmer if we learnt how to cope better with the more likelyscenario of failure. This is a book packed with dignified, sensible,kindly suggestions about how to approach failure: how to deal withfriends, how to cope with enemies, how to endure regret, how topick oneself up, how to accept oneself despite one’s flaws, and howto endure and thrive in new, less than ideal circumstancesIt’s a perfect volume for anyone who has ever had a relationshipbreakdown, suffered a career reversal, made enemies, bungled aproject or wasted their time – in other words, for all of usWhen we fail, it can sometimes seem as if we are alone in thishowever, in truth, there is nothing more human than to fail – andnothing wiser and more necessary than to learn to fail wellHardback book with 12 illustrations throughout | 232 pages