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katykelly's review against another edition
4.0
Short but meaningful study of failure.
Brief but rather inspiring, if you need someone to show you a new way of looking at failure. Being a positive person, who has previously studied psychology, I was interested to see Day’s perspective.
Broken down into : what is failure and the seven principles therein, this tries to give you a positive way of seeing “what happens when something doesn’t go according to plan”, and giving a lot of examples of famous names who’ve experienced and overcome such difficulties in their lives.
Some suggestions are very useful: “what if, instead of going down a rabbit-hole of self-loathing every time a romantic partner leaves your...messages unanswered, you think: ‘You are clearly not the right person for me. Thank you for eliminating yourself from my enquiries...’”
It did lift me up, and remind me that there’s no point dwelling, you might as well take something productive from these things, they are universal.
This was an easy read, broken up into small sections, well labelled, and with longer celebrity failures at the end to digest and show the range of how humans, whoever they are, are dealt unfortunate circumstances and have to deal with them. And can.
Succinct but an interesting and useful little read.
With thanks to Netgalley for providing a sample reading copy.
Brief but rather inspiring, if you need someone to show you a new way of looking at failure. Being a positive person, who has previously studied psychology, I was interested to see Day’s perspective.
Broken down into : what is failure and the seven principles therein, this tries to give you a positive way of seeing “what happens when something doesn’t go according to plan”, and giving a lot of examples of famous names who’ve experienced and overcome such difficulties in their lives.
Some suggestions are very useful: “what if, instead of going down a rabbit-hole of self-loathing every time a romantic partner leaves your...messages unanswered, you think: ‘You are clearly not the right person for me. Thank you for eliminating yourself from my enquiries...’”
It did lift me up, and remind me that there’s no point dwelling, you might as well take something productive from these things, they are universal.
This was an easy read, broken up into small sections, well labelled, and with longer celebrity failures at the end to digest and show the range of how humans, whoever they are, are dealt unfortunate circumstances and have to deal with them. And can.
Succinct but an interesting and useful little read.
With thanks to Netgalley for providing a sample reading copy.
els04's review against another edition
informative
fast-paced
4.0
Falen doen we allemaal. Door: Elizabeth Day.
Durf te falen staat al lang op mijn Te Lezen Lijst maar ik faalde (pun intended) in het boek vinden in de bibliotheek :) Ik luisterde wél al een paar afleveringen van Days How to Fail podcast én las een aantal van haar romans. Ik ben een fan.
Gelukkig is er nu Falen doen we allemaal; de versie voor tieners van het wereldberoemde boek Durf te falen. Ik heb het net uit en voel me dus eindelijk heel geslaagd in mijn DTF-uitdaging ;)
In deze praktische gids leert Elizabeth Day je hoe je op een positieve manier kan omgaan met falen want ja: dat doen we allemaal. En dat is niet erg. Er niets van leren; dat is pas erg.
Day plukt niet enkel voorbeelden uit haar eigen leven maar ze haalt ook voorbeelden aan van gasten uit haar podcast; wat dit boek nog meer authenticiteit geeft. Je hoeft geen tiener (meer) te zijn om veel van haar te leren. En dat in amper 139 pagina’s: geslaagd!
laurawhitley's review against another edition
emotional
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3.75
I genuinely think everyone needs to adopt this method of thinking.
Some of the anecdotes didn't resonate with me personally but I did feel I gained a lot even just in reassurance, if not new knowledge, from this book.
"to be rewarded for something that was already a reward in and of itself felt greedy"
Some of the anecdotes didn't resonate with me personally but I did feel I gained a lot even just in reassurance, if not new knowledge, from this book.
"to be rewarded for something that was already a reward in and of itself felt greedy"
malcom gladwell "i failed to understand how much pleasure there is in simple mediocrity"
hg126's review against another edition
4.0
Some lovely turns of phrase "sadness twined round my ankles like an unfed cat" but it's more a memoir than a handbook.
hayley_henderson22's review against another edition
emotional
funny
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informative
inspiring
lighthearted
reflective
fast-paced
4.5
blondeturtle's review against another edition
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funny
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5.0