Success is popular and ubiquitous. What about failure? If you want to learn the very educational and instructive 'Seven Principles of Failure', click here:
Born in 1978, the British writer is also a journalist and podcast producer. She was a columnist for The Observer between 2007 and 2016 and continues to write for You magazine. She is also the producer and creator of the popular podcast program called How To Fail With Elizabeth Day. How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong is the author's most popular book.
Elisabeth Day tells about the adventures of being turned upside down based on her own personal life, and we can say that there is no more effective area where the person can tell the "failure" starting from herself/himself.
Elizabeth Day (born 10 November 1978) is an English novelist, journalist and broadcaster. She was a feature writer for The Observer from 2007 to 2016, and wrote for You magazine. Day has written six books, and is also the host of the podcast How to Fail with Elizabeth Day.
Day's fifth book and first work of non-fiction was How to Fail: Everything I’ve Ever Learned From Things Going Wrong (2019)
Day's sixth book was also a non-fiction tie-in with her podcast; Failosophy: A Handbook for When Things Go Wrong (2020)
We are dealing with a writer who is at peace with “failure”. “Now” with an author who is at peace. “Being comfortable with failure means I have very few regrets. Whenever things got rough, it got me right where I needed to be, right here, to write this entry.”
Elizabeth Day begins by giving date, “I have been thinking about failure every day since July 13, 2018.” She says I can give the exact date because “I started broadcasting my podcast called How To Fail that day.” Having memorable histories of failures rather than successes is a manifestation of our perception and perspective on the subject. We are brought up with the fact that we cannot live without success, even though this point of view, perception puts all humanity through the harsh sieve of life.
So how can we be happy in this scenario? After all, what if we think that happiness works in tandem with success? Elizabeth Day always says that the cultures we live in frightened us into believing that our every mistake will be learned by everyone in a humiliating way, and that's where being upside down comes in. Saying that as such an unsuccessful person, she spent the last few years of her life thinking only about these; “… the weird thing is that it wasn't a negative experience at all,” she says.
Elizabeth Day does not write a single sentence on behalf of the roads to be taken, the turns to be turned, and the mountains to be overcome, using the language of extra, exaggerated, and victimization. She shares her story with us in an extremely calm, understandable, and clear narrative. In addition, she shares with us the failure stories of psychotherapists, politicians, and football players, that is, many people who are considered successful.
Seven Failure Principles from Elizabeth Day's How to Fail Live
1. Failure is a fact but you are not defined by it
"Just because you fail does not make you a failure"
2. You are not your anxious brain
The brain tells us something is a danger when it isn't
We are not defined by our thoughts
3. Almost everyone feels they have failed in their 20s
4. Break ups are not a tragedy - your ex-partner has taught you something
5. Failure is data acquisition
6. There is no such thing as a future you
7. When we choose to share our vulnerabilities is when we feel most satisfaction