The School of Life : on Failure : How to Succeed at Defeat / The School of Life.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

School of Life (Business enterprise), author.

Contributor:

School of Life (Business enterprise)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Failure (Psychology).

Self-actualization (Psychology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (147 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

London : The School of Life Press, [2022]

Summary:

A guide to the art of failing well--with actionable tips and a gentle approachThis 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.PRAGMATIC ADVICE ON how to be resilient and endure regret, so we can recover and move on from despair and catastrophe.WE ARE NOT ALONE explores various examples of real-world failure and reminds us that we are not alone in making mistakes.EMPATHETIC AND REALwritten from the perspective of those who have failed and survived their failure.CHAPTERS INCLUDE How to Deal with the Meanness of the World, What Love Really Is and Why It Matters, Finding Perspective, Fear and Self-Hatred, and Self-Compassion.

Contents:

Cover

Title

Contents

Introduction

Part I: Real-world Failure

i. The Many Types of Failure

ii. Should I Kill Myself?

iii. How to Deal with the Meanness of the World

iv. How to Deal with the Meanness of the Media

v. How to Live with Your Hamartia

vi. How to Deal with the Pity of Friends

vii. How to Deal with the Success of Friends

viii. A Life Devoid of Narcissism

ix. Living with Permanent Infamy

x. What Love Really Is and Why It Matters

xi. Let Him Who Is without Sin Cast the First Stone

xii. Bourgeois Respectability

xiii. Practical Measures

xiv. Confession

xv. Finding Perspective

xvi. The Downfall of Oscar Wilde

xvii. A New Attitude

xviii. A Utopian Commune

xix. Losers as Winners

xx. Time

Part II: The Fear of Failure

i. Failure Imagined

ii. Fear and Soothing

iii. Fear and Self-hatred

iv. Trauma and Fearfulness

v. Fear and Money

vi. Fear and Fame

vii. Impostor Syndrome

viii. The Benefits of a Breakdown

ix. Fear and Paranoia

x. On Not Thinking Straight

xi. Self-compassion

xii. A Less Pressured Life

xiii. Thinking of the Worst

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ISBN:

9781915087188

191508718X

OCLC:

1299388693