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The Perfectionist Trap

2016

One of the greatest obstacles to a good life is the expectation of perfection.

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5 Ways to Cope with Failure

Made a mistake? How to face failure

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Kristin Meekhof
2016
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What Is the Fear of Failure?

While everyone may be afraid of failing from time to time, it becomes more serious when it inhibits your ability to pursue your goals and achieve the things you want to accomplish in life.

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Kendra Cherry
2021
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10 Healthy Ways to Cope with Failure

Knowing how to deal with failure in a healthy way takes some of the fear out of it—and it might reduce the pain so you can bounce back better than before.

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Amy Morin
2021
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7 Important Lessons You Can Learn From Failure

Experiencing failure can teach you lessons that you wouldn’t have learned otherwise—you can learn from failure.

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Martin Lünendonk
2020
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The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery

The gift of failure is a riddle: it will always be both the void and the start of infinite possibility.

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Sarah Lewis
2025
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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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Jessica Lahey
2025
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FindCenter Quotes ImageFailure is an opportunity. If you blame someone else, there is no end to the blame.

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Lao Tzu
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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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Elizabeth Day
2019
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FindCenter Quotes ImageEvery 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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Steven Johnson
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FindCenter Quotes ImagePeople’s sense of self-worth is pivotal to their ability to look clearly at the hurt they’ve caused. The more solid one’s sense of self regard, the more likely that that person can feel empathy and compassion for the hurt party, and apologize from an authentic center.

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Harriet Lerner
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