How to Fail: Everything I’ve Learned From Things Going Wrong
Author: Elizabeth Day
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Elizabeth Day is normally the one interviewing others about those instances in which they “failed” and what they learned from those experiences for her popular podcast How to Fail. In this book, however, she turns asks herself those questions and opens up about her “failures”.
Divided into chapters, each focusing on a particular area (family, dating, work…), Day explores her own life events – especially the hard moments in which she felt she had failed.
But, hang on! This makes it sound like it is a sad and heartbreaking account of her life so far… but it is far from it! She opens up about the hard moments in her life but explains how she realised that they became great learning opportunities that enriched her view on life.
In her own words:
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.
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If you have been feeling down lately, or feel things aren’t going the way you wish they were, this is the book for you. How to Fail is inspiring and uplifting and will make you look at things from a different point of view. Day has done something incredibly selfless by writing this incredibly honest account of her failures and how she has chosen to see how they have made her a better person.
How to Fail will ultimately make you see that failing is an inevitable part of life and that no one should be afraid of doing anything for fear of failing. Failing and learning from your mistakes could be what makes you stronger.
> Naomi Round
