I’ll be honest, self help books aren’t necessarily my go-to because what tends to happen, is that I read one, feel motivated for about two days, hey I’ll even start trying to apply some of the tips, but then, like clockwork, I fall into old habits, forget the tips and find myself back at square one.
So I was definitely sceptical to say the least when I trotted off to my local library and picked up a copy of Elizabeth Day’s Failosophy. I recently saw her on a podcast and was quite intrigued by what she had to say.
Anyway, her book Failosophy touches on the topic of, you guessed it; failure. A short, easy read that, surprisingly, left me with some food for thought. Three chapters in particular, helped me to see failure in a more holistic and productive way.
Firstly, failure just is.
“Failure is a fact. The emotion we attach to it is separate, to a greater of lesser extent, within our control”
Just like breathing, taxes or death, failure is a fact of life. Running away from it is futile. It is non discriminatory, and will present itself in one way or another in every single person’s life. As someone who is stopped from doing things because of the fear of failure (in my case the fear of…
