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    How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong
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    How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong
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    How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong

    Written by Elizabeth Day

    Narrated by Elizabeth Day

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    About this audiobook

    Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong.

    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, How to Fail reveals that failure is not what defines us; rather it is how we respond to it that shapes us as individuals.

    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’.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins Publishers
    Release dateMar 25, 2019
    ISBN9780008327361
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    How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong
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    Elizabeth Day

    Elizabeth Day is an award-winning author and broadcaster based in the UK. Her chart-topping podcast, How to Fail, is a celebration of the things that haven’t gone right. Guests have included Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Gloria Steinem, Andrew Scott, Lily Allen, Mabel, Kazuo Ishiguro, and Malcolm Gladwell. It won the Rising Star Award at the 2019 British Podcast Awards. Elizabeth is the author of the novel The Party, which was published in the US in 2017.

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    • 5/5
      I cannot begin to say how much I loved this book!
      It made me reconsider my twenties as “gathering information” and just letting it be what it is.
      I also realized that I was too judgements towards myself and it is my new goal to be kinder and treat myself with as much respect as I have for others around me.
      Thank you, Elizabeth! I’d be sure to check out your podcast and hopefully continue my growth in becoming better at failing
    • 4/5
      Valuable, Touching & to a degree, eye opening. Thank you.
      (From the perspective of a Male can I say I appreciate the content referring to IVF & miscarriage as I have such little knowledge & understanding.)
    • 5/5
      I did not know Elizabeth Day before I found this book, and frankly, this was one of the better discoveries this year. I just love Day's mission. Talking openly about "failure" about the times when our expectations were unmet, about the times we felt down and disappointed. She does it well, the book is clearly narrated and written in a soft language, so it feels like she is always by your side.
    • 5/5
      I loved the rawness of emotion and experience in this book. Thank you. I could connect with your experience on so many levels. You have inspired me to just love myself and not try to be someone I’m not.
    • 5/5
      Love it, love her! Just something I really needed coming at the right moment.