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02833aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 11BF03C2FCF111ECA1EDA78634ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220706010037 007 ta 008 201119t20212020enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 0241988101 020 $a 9780241988107 035 $a (OCoLC)1222894394 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d PAU $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a e-uk--- 050 4 $a BF575 F14 M67 2021 100 1 $a Moran, Joe, $d 1970- $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n99259450 $e author. 245 10 $a If you should fail : $b why success eludes us and why it doesn't matter / $c Joe Moran. 264 1 $a [London] : $b Penguin Books, $c 2021. 300 $a 168 pages ; $c 20 cm 340 $n regular print 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 500 $a Originally published: UK: Viking, 2020. 520 $a Do you ever feel like a failure? Enter widely acclaimed observer of daily life Professor Joe Moran, 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. It's 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. We need more narratives of failure, and to see that not every failure can be made into a success - and that's OK. 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. 505 00 $g 7. $t Republic of Failure Or why failure feels like coming home. $g 2. $t Not Enough, Not Enough Or why you feel like an impostor -- $g 3. $t Examination Dream Or how we are schooled to feel like failures -- $g 4. $t Life Is Hell, But at Least There Are Prizes Or why rewards are never worth it -- $g 5. $t None of Us Is Proust Or how creative failure is like life -- $g 6. $t Crooked Timber of Humanity Or why failure is only human -- $g 7. $t Republic of Failure Or why failure feels like coming home. 650 0 $a Failure (Psychology) $z Great Britain. 650 0 $a Self-actualization (Psychology) $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85119713 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230302021316.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=11BF03C2FCF111ECA1EDA78634ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search