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In praise of failure : four lessons in humility Cover Image Book Book

In praise of failure : four lessons in humility

Brădățan, Costică (author.).

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"--

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  • ISBN: 0674970470
  • ISBN: 9780674970472
  • Physical Description: 273 pages ; 22 cm
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  • Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023.

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Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Prologue -- In a fallen world -- The ruins of political failure -- Winners and losers -- The ultimate failure -- Epilogue.

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Subject: Weil, Simone -- 1909-1943
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus -- approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D
Gandhi -- Mahatma -- 1869-1948
Cioran, E. M. (Emile M.) -- 1911-1995
Mishima, Yukio -- 1925-1970
Failure (Psychology)
Humility

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