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Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 12,496 ratings — published 1982
Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 4,259 ratings — published 2011
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 75,285 ratings — published 2004
Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 2,768 ratings — published 2023
The Most Magnificent Thing (Most Magnificent, 1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 9,002 ratings — published 2014
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 32,021 ratings — published 2000
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 21,024 ratings — published 2013
How The Mighty Fall: And Why Some Companies Never Give In (Good to Great, 4)
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avg rating 3.99 — 10,508 ratings — published 2009
The Gift of Failure: How the Best Parents Learn to Let Go So Their Children Can Succeed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 7,759 ratings — published 2014
Very Good Lives: The Fringe Benefits of Failure and the Importance of Imagination (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 28,970 ratings — published 2015
Rosie Revere, Engineer (The Questioneers (Picture Books) #2)
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avg rating 4.46 — 13,010 ratings — published 2013
The Logic of Failure: Recognizing and Avoiding Error in Complex Situations (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,022 ratings — published 1996
Why Most Things Fail: Evolution, Extinction and Economics (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.48 — 392 ratings — published 2005
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.40 — 285,554 ratings — published 2018
What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 5,579 ratings — published 1994
Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 14,789 ratings — published 2015
Billion-Dollar Lessons: What You Can Learn from the Most Inexcusable Business Failures of the Last 25 Years (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 793 ratings — published 2008
Fail Fast, Fail Often: How Losing Can Help You Win (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 860 ratings — published 2013
Mistborn: The Final Empire (Mistborn, #1)
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avg rating 4.49 — 1,031,015 ratings — published 2006
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 102,584 ratings — published 2014
How to Fail (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 13,831 ratings — published 2019
The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
by (shelved 3 times as failure)
avg rating 3.78 — 38,305 ratings — published 2007
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,376,174 ratings — published 2011
The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 28,562 ratings — published 2003
How Children Fail (Classics in Child Development)
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avg rating 4.23 — 2,020 ratings — published 1964
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 179,413 ratings — published 2006
The Up Side of Down: Why Failing Well Is the Key to Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 1,358 ratings — published 2014
To Engineer Is Human: The Role of Failure in Successful Design (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 2,531 ratings — published 1985
Failure is a Teacher: (Penguin Petit)
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avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 950,183 ratings — published 1878
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 409,103 ratings — published 2014
I Did It! (I Like to Read Comics)
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avg rating 3.73 — 313 ratings — published 2022
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,416,802 ratings — published 2022
Knitting for Dogs (Library Binding)
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avg rating 4.14 — 291 ratings — published
A Kids Book About Failure (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.46 — 96 ratings — published
Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.14 — 499 ratings — published
Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.98 — 5,409 ratings — published 2015
Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Spectacular Fall of Adam Neumann and WeWork (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 13,562 ratings — published 2020
Leif and the Fall (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 431 ratings — published 2020
Banvard's Folly: Thirteen Tales of People Who Didn't Change the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 837 ratings — published 2001
Emotional First Aid: Practical Strategies for Treating Failure, Rejection, Guilt, and Other Everyday Psychological Injuries (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 4,538 ratings — published 2013
The Magical Yet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 2,041 ratings — published 2020
Drift into Failure (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 345 ratings — published 2011
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,130,552 ratings — published 2012
Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 67,986 ratings — published 2019
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 65,222 ratings — published 2012
Failure: Why Science Is so Successful (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.81 — 329 ratings — published 2015
Why We Make Mistakes: How We Look Without Seeing, Forget Things in Seconds, and Are All Pretty Sure We Are Way Above Average (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 9,077 ratings — published 2009
Hannibal and Me: What History's Greatest Military Strategist Can Teach Us About Success and Failu re (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 815 ratings — published 2012
“I make mistakes like the next man. In fact, being--forgive me--rather cleverer than most men, my mistakes tend to be correspondingly huger.”
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
― Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out. The brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. Because the brick walls are there to stop the people who don’t want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people.”
― The Last Lecture
― The Last Lecture
