Learning to Fail
The Lesson School Forgot to Teach
Failed to add items
Sorry, we are unable to add the item because your shopping cart is already at capacity.
Add to basket failed.
Please try again later
Add to wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Remove from wishlist failed.
Please try again later
Adding to library failed
Please try again
Follow podcast failed
Unfollow podcast failed
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Unlimited access to our all-you-can-listen catalogue of 15K+ audiobooks and podcasts
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.
Learning to Fail
Pre-order Now for £19.09
-
Narrated by:
What if everything you’ve been taught about failure is the very thing holding you back?
In Learning to Fail, Dr. Aaron Dinin argues that we’re trained to misunderstand failure from an early age. In school, a bad grade or a failed test separated the good students from the bad ones, giving every kid a label—and an identity—in the form of a letter, A through F.
The result of this system? Professionals who hesitate to apply for jobs they want. Leaders who avoid difficult conversations. Creators too scared to share their work. People who’d rather stay where they are than risk getting something wrong.
Based on his viral Duke course, Learning to Fail breaks failure into five experiences we all recognize but rarely understand: rejection, uncertainty, quitting, criticism, and losing. Through unforgettable classroom challenges, personal stories, and conversations with leading entrepreneurs and innovators, Dinin shows how these five sides form an invisible box around our choices—and how learning to see that box is the first step toward stepping outside it.
Along the way, readers encounter the strange, funny, and surprisingly profound challenges that made the course famous, from making his students ask strangers for help to making them build impossible things out of pastries. These experiments help show how failure itself is rarely what stops us.
Whether you’re applying for a promotion, starting something new, or feeling stuck despite doing everything “right,” Dr. Dinin invites you to rethink everything you think you know about failure. Because the thing holding you back was never failure. It’s the story you've been told about it.
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1
No reviews yet