In praise of failure

four lessons in humility
Costica Bradatan
Book - 2023

"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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Main Author: Brădățan, Costică (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2023.
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600 1 0 |a Mishima, Yukio,  |d 1925-1970. 
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