The School of Life found its How to Fail class was so popular in London it then launched it in Amsterdam, Taipei, Sydney, Melbourne and Antwerp.
With a sinking heart, Jessica knew the job interview wasn’t going well. Midway through, still foggy-headed from staying up with her sick daughter the night before, the political consultant felt her confidence slipping away.day I was mortified to hear the damning feedback they’d given to the recruitment consultant. They said that while I had the quantity – the years of experience – I lacked the quality. It was really quite cutting.
I’ve even congratulated myself on it. By dividing an uncertain world into the things I can and can’t do and sticking firmly in my lane, I’m both protected and can project success. Win-win. also appeared. Caught up in what she calls “aspirational psychosis”, Rinaldi believes that constantly chasing the impossible is getting us nowhere. She highlights the importance of admitting our defeats and giving ourselves the freedom to fail.
“Instead of getting upset by them, we stop and have a celebration,” she says. “I encourage them to record what they’ve learnt from making that mistake, and by writing it down they’re able to see the list of their ‘new learnings’ grow.” If that sounds easily doable, this next piece of advice may need a deep breath. Saujani advises to ask for “cold, hard, unadulterated feedback” when you know that you missed the mark. And seek that feedback everywhere: work, relationships, friendships. It’s a form of radical exposure therapy, she says, and is the best shortcut to realising that critical feedback doesn’t hurt nearly as much as you fear it does.
This public declaration of failure chimes with a trend for people to create and share a “CV of failures”. In 2016, Johannes Haushofer, assistant professor of psychology at Princeton, wrote a CV listing every degree program he’d failed to get into, each award he’d missed and every job he didn’t secure.
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