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A review by katykelly
Failosophy: A Handbook For When Things Go Wrong by Elizabeth Day
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.