In praise of failure : four lessons in humility / Costica Bradatan.

By:

Brădățan, Costică

Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023Description: 273 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9780674970472

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

158.1 23/eng/20220616

LOC classification:

BF575 .F14 B73 2023

Summary: "Success is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of four thinkers who, for all their external success, courted failure throughout their years. From Simone Weil to Seneca and Gandhi, the greatest of us made meaningful lives by grasping the epiphanies of failure"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Success is all very well, but failure teaches us what is most important: humility. Costica Bradatan tells the stories of four thinkers who, for all their external success, courted failure throughout their years. From Simone Weil to Seneca and Gandhi, the greatest of us made meaningful lives by grasping the epiphanies of failure"-- Provided by publisher.