Review of An Interview with Failure
Posted: 22 Jan 2024, 21:46
[Following is a volunteer review of "An Interview with Failure" by Sam Yankelevitch.]
An Interview with Failure by Sam Yankelevitch.
This is a motivational inspiring book written in a funny and intriguing way. The book is about the podcaster Robin Finch's podcast "Wake Up and Leap Forward". And he has a very special guest, Failure. Yes, it is failure personified as Failure.
The main motive of the book is to eradicate the fear about failure and to urge us to take the next steps with confidence. In his interview with Robin, Failure tries to change the listener's negative perspective about him by answering Robin's question enthusiastically. He shares many interesting stories like the deaf frog and Goliath to accentuate his point. His perspective about constellations, tools, fences are persuasive and it helps him to fortify his views.
The book starts with the concept that Failure is just a word and not a threatening shadow looming over us. It encourages us to redefine the word 'failure' and associate a positive meaning to it. The story behind the origin of word 'failure' was new to me and I appreciated the facts. The author gets it spot on when he tells there is no definite black and white in our world and there is a lot of gray in between. This book reinforces the fact that 'Failure is the stepping stone to success' and how we have to move on after failure and learn from our mistakes. It emphasizes that failure is not the end of the world. Many of us have forgotten this fact and are stuck in the vortex of failure. The book tries to pull us out of this rut and lead us to our goals. The chapter that deals with expectations is very accurate and stresses that nothing is perfect. Every chapter begins with a meaningful quote which I deeply enjoyed.
The editing could have been better as I found grammatical errors and typos. At few places, I felt little boring and repetitive. The content could have been written more interestingly at some places. I loved the small stories and wished there were more of it. So my rating is 3 out of 4. But apart from that, the whole book was really good and I enjoyed the reading experience. It stimulated my thoughts and made me ponder in a new way about life.
I would surely recommend this book as it is very thought-provoking and gives great insights into our life.
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An Interview with Failure
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
An Interview with Failure by Sam Yankelevitch.
This is a motivational inspiring book written in a funny and intriguing way. The book is about the podcaster Robin Finch's podcast "Wake Up and Leap Forward". And he has a very special guest, Failure. Yes, it is failure personified as Failure.
The main motive of the book is to eradicate the fear about failure and to urge us to take the next steps with confidence. In his interview with Robin, Failure tries to change the listener's negative perspective about him by answering Robin's question enthusiastically. He shares many interesting stories like the deaf frog and Goliath to accentuate his point. His perspective about constellations, tools, fences are persuasive and it helps him to fortify his views.
The book starts with the concept that Failure is just a word and not a threatening shadow looming over us. It encourages us to redefine the word 'failure' and associate a positive meaning to it. The story behind the origin of word 'failure' was new to me and I appreciated the facts. The author gets it spot on when he tells there is no definite black and white in our world and there is a lot of gray in between. This book reinforces the fact that 'Failure is the stepping stone to success' and how we have to move on after failure and learn from our mistakes. It emphasizes that failure is not the end of the world. Many of us have forgotten this fact and are stuck in the vortex of failure. The book tries to pull us out of this rut and lead us to our goals. The chapter that deals with expectations is very accurate and stresses that nothing is perfect. Every chapter begins with a meaningful quote which I deeply enjoyed.
The editing could have been better as I found grammatical errors and typos. At few places, I felt little boring and repetitive. The content could have been written more interestingly at some places. I loved the small stories and wished there were more of it. So my rating is 3 out of 4. But apart from that, the whole book was really good and I enjoyed the reading experience. It stimulated my thoughts and made me ponder in a new way about life.
I would surely recommend this book as it is very thought-provoking and gives great insights into our life.
******
An Interview with Failure
View: on Bookshelves | on Amazon
