How to Fail: Everything Ive Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong

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Inspired by her hugely popular podcast,How To Failis Elizabeth Days brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong.
This is a book for anyone who has ever failed. Which means its 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 Elizabeths own life,How to Failreveals 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.

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A book full of wisdom, humour, humility, tenderness and heart. Elizabeth Days beautiful, reassuring stories and observations are a guide to self-compassion, a celebration of all things imperfect and will galvanise you to try, try again Dolly Alderton, author of Everything I Know About Love

'How To Failhas rapidly become my essential companion in this over-competitive, demanding world. By turns profound, witty, and extremely reassuring, Elizabeth Day's sublime deconstruction of the myth of 'success' and the journey to find our own markers of contentment is a life-changing gift to us all.' Jessie Burton, author of The Muse

'Brilliant Elizabeth Day, whoyou could probably trust to talk eloquently about anything' Evening Standard

'Brilliant Covering everything from job rejections to failed IVF attempts, this podcast will make you feel better about life when things arent going to plan Harper's Bazaar

'Funny and insightful' Grazia

'Its really quite special'Red

'Whip-smart celebrations of things going, well, wrong' Emerald Street

'Listening to this show is cathartic; failure is a constant experience shared by so many, and being open is not a bad thing BuzzFeed

Tender and insightful, as well as acerbically funny Readers Digest

Author Bio

Elizabeth Day is the author of four novels and Sunday Times bestelling memoir, How to Fail. Her acclaimed debut Scissors, Paper, Stone won a Betty Trask Award and Home Fires was an Observer book of the year. Her third, Paradise City, was named one of the best novels of 2015 in the Evening Standard, and The Party was an Amazon bestseller and a Richard & Judy bookclub pick. She is also an award-winning journalist and has written extensively for The Times, the Telegraph, the Guardian, the Observer, Harper's Bazaar and Elle. She is currently a columnist for the Mail on Sunday's You magazine and host of the iTunes chart-topping podcast, How To Fail With Elizabeth Day.