If You Should Fail: Why Success Eludes Us and Why It Doesn’t Matter
Autor Joe Moranen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 aug 2021
'Full of wise insight and honesty. Moran manages to be funny, erudite and kindly: a rare - and compelling - combination. This is the essential antidote to a culture obsessed with success. Read it'Madeleine Bunting
Failure is the small print in life's terms and conditions.
Covering everything from examination dreams to fourth-placed Olympians, If You Should Fail is about how modern life, in a world of self-advertised success, makes us feel like failures, frauds and imposters. Widely acclaimed observer of daily life Joe Moran is here not to tell you that everything will be all right in the end, but to reassure you that failure is an occupational hazard of being human.
As Moran shows, even the supremely gifted Leonardo da Vinci could be seen as a failure. Most artists, writers, sports stars and business people face failure. We all will, and can learn how to live with it. To echo Virginia Woolf, beauty "is only got by the failure to get it . . . by facing what must be humiliation - the things one can't do."
Combining philosophy, psychology, history and literature, Moran's ultimately upbeat reflections on being human, and his critique of how we live now, offers comfort, hope - and solace. For we need to see that not every failure can be made into a success - and that's OK.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780241988107
ISBN-10: 0241988101
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0241988101
Pagini: 176
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.14 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
Notă biografică
Joe
Moranis
Professor
of
English
and
Cultural
History
at
Liverpool
John
Moores
University
and
is
the
author
of
seven
books,
includingQueuing
for
Beginners:
The
Story
of
Daily
Life
from
Breakfast
to
Bedtime,Armchair
Nation:
An
Intimate
History
of
Britain
in
Front
of
the
TV,Shrinking
Violets:
The
Secret
Life
of
ShynessandFirst
You
Write
a
Sentence.
He
writes
for,
among
others,
theGuardian,theNew
Statesmanand
theTimes
Literary
Supplement.
Recenzii
This
is
adeeply
tenderbook,
andfull
of
wise
insight
and
honesty.
Moran
manages
to
befunny,
erudite
and
kindly:
a
rare
-
and
compelling
-
combination.
This
is
theessential
antidote
to
a
culture
obsessed
with
success.
Read
it
Joe Moran is a brilliant historian, and the most perceptive and original observer of British life that we have. He makes the humdrum riveting
There is anhonesty and a clarityin Joe Moran's bookIf You Should Failthatnormalises and softens the usual blows of life that enables us to accept and live with them rather than be diminished/wounded by them
A fascinating insight. Moran's honesty is brilliantly rawand uncomfortable at times, but under the apparently bleak message on the surface there is anuplifting truthto be found. For myself,the concept of failure has been redefined
Moran is awonderful, wittywriter
Moran is a past master at producing fine, accessible non-fiction
Joe Moran is a wonderfully sharp writer, calm, precise and quietly comical
I really love Joe Moran's work, he writes with suchgenerosity and kindness
These stories are beautifully told, and they are comforting at first... Moran's compassion shines through this gift of a book
A calming antidote to the world of professionally failing... What Moran has created is aslim, lyrical and blessedly cool-headed reflection on failure as a universally shared human trial... What he provides, instead of the mechanical business strategies laid out in some popular failure titles, is a selection offascinating and often movinglives, characterised in some way by their failure
A beautifully written meditation on life's inevitable setbacksand what he sardonically terms "the failing well movement". Moran encourages us to accept our impostor syndromes, to avoid becoming a "sporting masochist" for whom winning is everything, and to admire the history of West End musicals that were instant, notorious flops
A classic anti (or counter-intuitive) self-help treatise --robustly argued, intellectually sturdy, laced with self-deprecatory humour... it is deeply empathetic to the trials of the creative life
Joe Moran is a brilliant historian, and the most perceptive and original observer of British life that we have. He makes the humdrum riveting
There is anhonesty and a clarityin Joe Moran's bookIf You Should Failthatnormalises and softens the usual blows of life that enables us to accept and live with them rather than be diminished/wounded by them
A fascinating insight. Moran's honesty is brilliantly rawand uncomfortable at times, but under the apparently bleak message on the surface there is anuplifting truthto be found. For myself,the concept of failure has been redefined
Moran is awonderful, wittywriter
Moran is a past master at producing fine, accessible non-fiction
Joe Moran is a wonderfully sharp writer, calm, precise and quietly comical
I really love Joe Moran's work, he writes with suchgenerosity and kindness
These stories are beautifully told, and they are comforting at first... Moran's compassion shines through this gift of a book
A calming antidote to the world of professionally failing... What Moran has created is aslim, lyrical and blessedly cool-headed reflection on failure as a universally shared human trial... What he provides, instead of the mechanical business strategies laid out in some popular failure titles, is a selection offascinating and often movinglives, characterised in some way by their failure
A beautifully written meditation on life's inevitable setbacksand what he sardonically terms "the failing well movement". Moran encourages us to accept our impostor syndromes, to avoid becoming a "sporting masochist" for whom winning is everything, and to admire the history of West End musicals that were instant, notorious flops
A classic anti (or counter-intuitive) self-help treatise --robustly argued, intellectually sturdy, laced with self-deprecatory humour... it is deeply empathetic to the trials of the creative life