Learning to Fail

di Aaron Dinin (Autore)

Simon & Schuster Audio, 2027

From Duke University professor and social media influencer Dr. Aaron Dinin comes a sharp, practical, and deeply human guide to understanding why failure feels so threatening—and how to stop letting that fear make your decisions. What if everything you’v**e 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.

• Autore: Aaron Dinin
• Curatore: Maria Espinosa
• Durata in (hh:mm:ss): 08:30:00
• Anno edizione: 2027
• Editore: Simon & Schuster Audio
• Lingua: Inglese
• EAN: 9781668172544