Most of the time we hear and read about stories of success; about the rewards of success; about the good times etc. Somehow most people do not like to talk about their failings and bad experiences. Our society today has been programmed to shun failure. We look down on people who have failed. "Failing" is taken as something "bad". The world today loves a winner and losers are not accepted. We have reached the stage where nobody should make mistakes and people who make mistakes are punished. Is there no value in "failing" at all?
This book touches on the "other side" of the success story. It is a side that many can really learn from.
For the millions of people who have tried and failed, this book speaks for you. May you once again like the Phoenix rise from the ashes after reading this book.
"What people see of my success is only one percent but what they don't see is the 99 percent which are my failures." - Soichiro Honda.
"Everyone should fail in a big way at least once before they're forty... the bigger you fail, the bigger you're likely to succeed later... Some parents worry that their children might fail. I'm concerned because mine are in their mid-30s and haven't failed yet." - Al Neuharth, founder of USA Today.
"I can imagine a group of executives discussing a candidate for a top job and saying, "What worries me about this guy is that he's never failed"." - Harvard School Professor, John Kotter.