{"id":55798,"date":"2025-02-28T13:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/in-praise-of-failure-four-lessons-in-humility\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T13:51:08","slug":"in-praise-of-failure-four-lessons-in-humility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/studentsclub.org\/homepage\/in-praise-of-failure-four-lessons-in-humility\/","title":{"rendered":"In Praise of Failure: Four Lessons in Humility"},"content":{"rendered":"


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A New York Times Book Review Editors\u2019 Choice <\/p>\n

\u201cCharming and brilliant.\u201d \u2015Times Literary Supplement <\/p>\n

\u201cProvocative, stimulating, wise\u2015the book that our success-obsessed age needs to read.\u201d\u2015Tom Holland <\/p>\n

\u201cBradatan, a philosopher, writes with elegance and wit, his every thought and sentence slipping smoothly into the next\u2026I was absorbed by Bradatan\u2019s book even\u2015or especially\u2015when I felt uncomfortable with its implications.\u201d \u2015Jennifer Szalai, New York Times <\/p>\n

\u201cBradatan wears his erudition lightly. He is a pleasure to read, and his prose conveys a happy resilience in the face of life\u2019s inevitable contradictions. His lessons in humility remind us that the pursuit of success is often motivated by the dread of failure\u2015and that our attempts to create things are often driven by an avoidance of our mortality.\u201d \u2015Michael S. Roth, Washington Post <\/p>\n

\u201cBradatan writes with the same daring, the same interpretive anger that made his subjects notorious in their own day for choosing failure over what their respective worlds counted as success. A gripping read, start to finish.\u201d \u2015Jack Miles, author of God: A Biography <\/p>\n

Our obsession with success is hard to overlook. Everywhere we compete, rank, and measure. Yet this relentless drive to be the best blinds us to something vitally important: the need to be humble in the face of life\u2019s challenges. <\/p>\n

In Praise of Failure explores several arenas of failure, from the social and political to the spiritual and biological. Gleefully breaching the boundaries between argument and storytelling, scholarship and spiritual quest, Costica Bradatan mounts his case for failure through the stories of four historical figures who led lives of impact and meaning and assiduously courted failure. Their struggles show that engaging with our limitations can be not just therapeutic but positively transformative.<\/p>\n


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Publisher \u200f : \u200e Harvard University Press (August 6, 2024)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Paperback \u200f : \u200e 288 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 0674297202
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0674297203
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 10.4 ounces
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 5.5 x 0.69 x 8.25 inches <\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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