Feel like a failure? According to Fail Brilliantly, you're not alone. In a comprehensive and insightful look at what success means in our society, Davidow and Williams, delve deep into research behind measures of failure, with some surprising insights. By the world s standards, I could have been deemed a "failure" for most of my adult life; struggling to make ends meet while raising eight children. A meager income as a freelance writer and a staggering mound of rejections might have convinced someone less determined to abandon all hope of ever becoming a "real" writer. Instead, repeated rejections served to motivate me. The authors would call this an "unexpected outcome" of the struggles I faced as a fledgling writer. With five books and hundreds of published articles, I m now taken seriously as a writer. Evidently, according to this wonderful book, I "failed brilliantly" and you can too.