Get It Right Next Time: Failing Your Way to Success

by John J. Burt, Robert M. Johnson

This book is the result of two long careers that have focused on teaching issues of mental health and mindfulness. It reflects a popular course called the Examined Life currently being offered for seniors interested in Lifelong Learning. The subject is human fallibility and it is the first volume in a series called “The Examined Life Series. Other topics will aloneness, aging, mortality, meaning, pleasure, change and bad will.“Get it Right Next Time” provides the reader with insight into the way successful people have benefitted from their mistakes to move ahead with their lives. It explores the value of positive attitude, and realistically offers a measure for happiness and success. The authors bring more than fifty years of experience to this topic, having worked both individually and in groups with people seeking answers to the riddles of everyday life. This booklet is a companion, a manual on the road to fulfilment, putting human error in context, making it a dynamic part of the reader’s formula for success.

31 pages, Kindle Edition

First published August 10, 2014