The Art of Failure – The Anti Self-Help Guide, by Neel Burton
ISBN 978-0-9560353-3-2, RPR £12.99
Published March 2010
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Runner up Prize, British Medical Association Board of Science Award for the Public Understanding of Science
Some people would rather die than think. In fact, they do.
- Bertrand Russell
We spend most of our time and energy chasing success, such that we have little left over for thinking and feeling, being and relating. As a result, we fail in the deepest possible way. We fail as human beings.
The Art of Failure explores what it means to be successful, and how, if at all, true success can be achieved.
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An extraordinarily wide ranging mix of psychology and philosophy covering most of human behaviour from madness to happiness and the meaning of life, and encountering ghosts and death on the way. This young author has already won several prizes ... and this volume deserves another.
- The British Medical Association
