failure (psychology)

Looks at creativity and mastery in the arts, science, and business, as well as the sometimes surprising ways that they are achieved through serendipity, failure, simple determination, and hard work.

Contains the commencement speech J.K. Rowling gave at Harvard University in 2008 in which she discusses the importance of imagination and having the courage to fail.

Four people finds their lives brought together at a midweek church service while searching for what is missing from their lives and find a way to help one another reconnect with their lives and spirituality.

"For readers of Drive, Outliers, and Daring Greatly, a counterintuitive, paradigm-shifting new take on what makes people and companies succeed Most new products fail. So do most small businesses. And most of us, if we are honest, have experienced a major setback in our personal or professional lives. So what determines who will bounce back and follow up with a home run? If you want to succeed in business and in life, Megan McArdle argues in this hugely thought-provoking book, you have to learn how to harness the power of failure. McArdle has been one of our most popular business bloggers for more than a decade, covering the rise and fall of some the world's top companies and challenging us to think differently about how we live, learn, and work. Drawing on cutting-edge research in science, psychology, economics, and business, and taking insights from turnaround experts, emergency room doctors, venture capitalists, child psychologists, bankruptcy judges, and mountaineers, McArdle argues that America is unique in its willingness to let people and companies fail, but also in its determination to let them pick up after the fall. Failure is how people and businesses learn. So how do you reinvent yourself when you are down? Dynamic and punchy, McArdle teaches us how to recognize mistakes early to channel setbacks into future success. The Up Side of Down marks the emergence of an author with her thumb on the pulse whose book just might change the way you lead your life"--.

Andrew, a thirty-two-year-old longtime undergraduate who cannot hold a job, gets married and embarks on an attempt to get his life together, but the real test of adult responsibility comes when Isabel dies and he must take charge of her sons and fifteen-year-old foster daughter--a challenge fraught with temptation.

In mid-twentieth-century, British-controlled Ceylon, Sam Obeysekere, a native prosecutor who has embraced English culture more than his true heritage, takes on the case of a murdered English tea grower and finds that his standing with the ruling class is not as it seemed.

Advice for bouncing back from personal setbacks and for regarding risks as challenges and learning experiences rather than as fearsome opportunities for making a mistake.

When Buddy Rocks trips among the other dinosaur runners and comes in last in the race, his father gives him advice on letting go of his feelings of anger and frustration and moving on to new challenges.

Collects stories, jokes, cartoons, articles, and sketches that describes human reactions to rejection, and features selections from Bob Wiltfong, Meredith Hoffa, Joel Stein, Dave Wain, Michael Ian Black, and others.