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Failure & resilience

Below are the best resources we could find on Failure and resilience.

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

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.

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Everyone Fails. Here’s How to Pick Yourself Back Up.

Learning to fail is a skill like any other—which means it takes practice. Learn how to thrive in spite of even your most epic mistakes.

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The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed

In the tradition of Paul Tough’s How Children Succeed and Wendy Mogel’s The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, this groundbreaking manifesto focuses on the critical school years when parents must learn to allow their children to experience the disappointment and frustration that occur from life’s...

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FindCenterThis is how great intellectual breakthroughs usually happen in practice. It is rarely the isolated genius having a eureka moment alone in the lab. Nor is it merely a question of building on precedent, of standing on the shoulders of giants, in Newton’s famous phrase.

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The Failure Factor: Joe Cross on How to Cultivate Luck

To anyone out there who feels like they’re failing, it’s OK—that’s what we call ‘Life.’ —Joe Cross

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You Are Awesome: How to Navigate Change, Wrestle with Failure, and Live an Intentional Life

Why is life getting harder instead of easier? How do I get back up after life knocks me down? And how do I grow stronger and live more intentionally? We no longer have the tools to handle failure…or even perceived failure. When we fall, we lie on the sidewalk crying. When we spill, we splatter.

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Famous Failures

Inspiring video on persevering no matter how many times you have failed in life. This video mentions well known people who had failed, but kept pressing on until they became successful.

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FindCenterEvery genuinely new technology has a genuinely new way of breaking—and every now and then, those malfunctions open a new door to the adjacent possible. Sometimes the way a new technology breaks is almost as interesting as the way it works.

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Fueled By Failure: Using Detours and Defeats to Power Progress

Olympian and former NFL player now thriving as a CEO and Philanthropist, Jeremy Bloom pulls at the common thread that unites him with all of us: the defeats we encounter on our journeys to reach our goals.

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The Benefits of Failure

Failure can increase resilience and spur creativity, among other advantages.

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